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SparkR - Apache Spark Tutorial

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SparkR

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- [Instructor] In this section, we're going to we working with SparkR, and I recommend that you get the example notebook from my GitHub. So, where you want to go for this is into my GitHub, learning-hadoop-and-spark, and then you want to go into Use-Spark, and Jupyter-Notebooks, and aws_databricks_notebooks and SparkR. There has been some changes to the default release in Spark in terms of working with R, and I found that the documentation that was online wasn't updated. So I updated the documentation and tested this notebook with Spark 2.2. In the next notebook, we're going to look at yet another library. So let's go to Workspace and import, and make this so we can see the background, and let's work with the R language. And click import, and then I'll maximize this. So, the R language is more specialized than some of the other libraries, for example the SQL that we just looked at. It's used very heavily in the…

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