By itself, you should be able to add just these calls to R to initialize SparkR (assuming Spark/SparkR 1.4.0+):
library(SparkR) sc <- sparkR.init() sqlContext <- sparkRSQL.init(sc) On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 5:03 AM -0700, "Eric Charles" <e...@apache.org> wrote: Thx for the kind words Felix. Really appreciated! I will come back asap with: 1. ZEPPELIN-154 2. SparkR with our zeppelin-R interpreter. On 2015-07-04 13:54, felixcheun...@hotmail.com wrote: > > Very nice Eric. Interesting approach to use Rserve and knitr, which > solve the ploting problem (Interesting projects at datalayer too) > > I've been working on the SparkR interpreter. There the challenges are > getting it to work with Spark interpreter within Zeppelin. Would be > interested in your thoughts. > >> From: Eric Charles >> Sent: Saturday, July 4, 1:11 AM >> Subject: Re: SparkR Interpreter >> To: users@zeppelin.incubator.apache.org >> >> https://github.com/datalayer/zeppelin-R uses Rserve (GPL-2 License). >> >> Rserve for variable sharing across paragraph and knitr for html >> rendering (with image plot) was our best bet. SparkR should be ok with >> this (will check). >> >> Are you investing other alternatives to implement SparkR? >> >> Side note: I have opened ZEPPELIN-154 and will propose a PR to allow 3rd >> party interpreters to be used in Zeppelin without the need to have them >> in the Apache source tree. >> >> On 2015-07-04 00:10, moon soo Lee wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Yes, there is SparkR in roadmap. and work in progress. >> > ( >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ZEPPELIN/Zeppelin+Roadmap) >> > >> > Thanks, >> > moon >> > >> > On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 6:35 AM Dave O'Flanagan >> > <david.oflana...@boxever.com < mailto:david.oflana...@boxever.com>> >> wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > Is there a SparkR interpreter in Zeppelin in the roadmap? It would >> > be great to have similar capability to the REPL provided by >> > sparkR.sh from the Spark distro. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Dave. >> > >> > ---- >> > Dave O'Flanagan >> > CEO, Boxever >> > e: d...@boxever.com < mailto:d...@boxever.com> >> > t: +353 86 8518476 >> > w: www.boxever.com <http://www.boxever.com> < >> http://www.boxever.com/> >> > >>