Thank you Sourav and Amos for the quick replies. Very helpful. Will play around with rZeppelin some more - so far it's been working very well for our use cases.
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Sourav Mazumder < sourav.mazumde...@gmail.com> wrote: > In my experience parameter passing between R, scala, Spark SQL SparkR > worked great in rZeppelin. > > I could successfully build a model using SparkR's GLM algorithm, done a > prediction using the model, then I could create a SparkR datafarme from the > predicted dataset. Then used the same to visualize the data using R's > visualization library. I used rZeppelin for the same. > > Regards, > Sourav > > > > On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Amos B. Elberg <amos.elb...@me.com> > wrote: > >> Yeah, I’ve looked into it a little bit :p >> >> rZeppelin (the one in repository Zeppelin-With-R) is an accepted pull >> request that is pending integration with Zeppelin. >> >> In an rZeppelin session, R shares the same Spark backend with the rest of >> the Zeppelin Spark-based interpreters. That’s why multiple languages can >> share the same Spark data pipeline. >> >> Datalayer’s R interpreter is not integrated with the rest of Zeppelin. >> It launches its own instance of Spark which is separate and distinct from >> the one being used by the rest of Zeppelin. >> >> rZeppelin also supports moving data between languages using the Zeppelin >> Context, which allows you to share variables with scala and python. >> Datalayer has their own implementation for moving variables between R and >> scala. >> >> rZeppelin supports interactive visualizations. I don’t believe that >> Datalayer’s does. >> >> There are other differences as well. This is explained in the rZeppelin >> readme. >> >> >> From: Girish Reddy <gir...@springml.com> <gir...@springml.com> >> Reply: users@zeppelin.incubator.apache.org >> <users@zeppelin.incubator.apache.org> >> <users@zeppelin.incubator.apache.org> >> Date: December 24, 2015 at 1:52:11 PM >> To: users@zeppelin.incubator.apache.org >> <users@zeppelin.incubator.apache.org> >> <users@zeppelin.incubator.apache.org> >> Subject: R interpreters >> >> Hello: >> >> Looks like there are two R interpreters - >> https://github.com/datalayer/zeppelin-R and >> https://github.com/elbamos/Zeppelin-With-R >> >> From the docs, Zeppelin-With-R supports passing objects between languages >> using registerTempTable. Not sure if the other interpreter supports it or >> what other differences are. Has anyone looked into this? >> >> >
