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title: "Using Spark from R for performance with arbitrary code"
author: "Jozef Hajnala"
date: "2020-02-20"
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link: "https://sparkfromr.com/"
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This bookdown publication attempts to provide practical insights into using the sparklyr interface to gain the benefits of Apache Spark while still retaining the ability to use R code organized in custom-built functions and packages. [...] Apache Spark is a popular open-source analytics engine for big data processing and thanks to the sparklyr and SparkR packages, the power of Spark is also available to R users. This short publication attempts to provide practical insights into using the sparklyr interface to gain the benefits of Apache Spark while still retaining the ability to use R code ...
