RJDBC Cassandra -> Error in .jfindClass(as.character(driverClass)[1]) : class not found

Question

I am trying to connect R to Cassandra and I am getting the following error - even though I explicitly add this directory folder to the classpath before I run the code (and I

Answer 1

So, the documentation is terrible out there, I was able to find out that you need the following "Dependency" jars, AND you need to put them in the same folder as the driver jar file.

List of JARS:

apache-cassandra-thrift-1.2.6 cassandra-jdbc-2.1.1 log4j-1.2.15 slf4j-simple-1.5.2 libthrift-0.7.0 jackson-core-asl-1.9.2 cassandra-all-1.2.9 slf4j-api-1.5.2 apache-cassandra-clientutil-1.2.6 jackson-mapper-asl-1.9.2 guava-15.0 slf4j-log4j12-1.5.2

However, even if you do get lucky enough to resolve this issue and R finds your driver, you will then have a problem and get the error below which no one seems to have fixed yet......

log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.cassandra.cql.jdbc.CassandraDriver). log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. Error in .jcall(drv@jdrv, "Ljava/sql/Connection;", "connect", as.character(url)[1], : java.sql.SQLNonTransientConnectionException: org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException: Read a negative frame size (-2097152000)!