Empty output when reading a csv file into Rstudio using SparkR

Question

I\'m a new user of SparkR. I\'m trying to load a csv file into R using SparkR.

Sys.setenv(SPARK_HOME=\"/usr/local/bin/spark-1.5.1-bin-hadoop2.6\")
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Answer 1

Pre-built Spark distributions are still built with Scala 2.10, not 2.11. So, if you use such a distribution (which I think you do), you need also a spark-csv build that is for Scala 2.10, not for Scala 2.11 (as the one you use in your code). The following code should then work fine:

 library(rJava)
 library(SparkR)
 library(nycflights13)

 df <- flights[1:4, 1:4]
 df
   year month day dep_time
 1 2013     1   1      517
 2 2013     1   1      533
 3 2013     1   1      542
 4 2013     1   1      544

 write.csv(df, file="~/scripts/temp.csv", quote=FALSE, row.names=FALSE)

 sc <- sparkR.init(sparkHome= "/usr/local/bin/spark-1.5.1-bin-hadoop2.6/", 
                   master="local",
                   sparkPackages="com.databricks:spark-csv_2.10:1.2.0")  # 2.10 here
 sqlContext <- sparkRSQL.init(sc)
 df_spark <- read.df(sqlContext, "/home/vagrant/scripts/temp.csv", "com.databricks.spark.csv", header="true")
 head(df_spark)
   year month day dep_time
 1 2013     1   1      517
 2 2013     1   1      533
 3 2013     1   1      542
 4 2013     1   1      544