R: Apply an R Function in Spark

spark_apply {sparklyr} | R Documentation

## Apply an R Function in Spark

### Description

Applies an R function to a Spark object (typically, a Spark DataFrame).

### Usage

    spark_apply(x, f, columns = colnames(x), memory = TRUE, group_by = NULL,
      packages = TRUE, context = NULL, ...)

### Arguments

`x` | An object (usually a `spark_tbl`) coercable to a Spark DataFrame.
`f` | A function that transforms a data frame partition into a data frame. The function `f` has signature `f(df, context, group1, group2, ...)` where `df` is a data frame with the data to be processed, `context` is an optional object passed as the `context` parameter and `group1` to `groupN` contain the values of the `group_by` values. When `group_by` is not specified, `f` takes only one argument.
`columns` | A vector of column names or a named vector of column types for the transformed object. Defaults to the names from the original object and adds indexed column names when not enough columns are specified.
`memory` | Boolean; should the table be cached into memory?
`group_by` | Column name used to group by data frame partitions.
`packages` | Boolean to distribute `.libPaths()` packages to each node, a list of packages to distribute, or a package bundle created with `spark_apply_bundle()`. For clusters using Livy or Yarn cluster mode, `packages` must point to a package bundle created using `spark_apply_bundle()` and made available as a Spark file using `config$sparklyr.shell.files`. For offline clusters where `available.packages()` is not available, manually download the packages database from https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/packages.rds and set `Sys.setenv(sparklyr.apply.packagesdb = "<pathl-to-rds>")`. Otherwise, all packages will be used by default.
`context` | Optional object to be serialized and passed back to `f()`.
`...` | Optional arguments; currently unused.

### Configuration

`spark_config()` settings can be specified to change the workers environment.

For instance, to set additional environment variables to each worker node use the `sparklyr.apply.env.*` config, to launch workers without `--vanilla` use `sparklyr.apply.options.vanilla` set to `FALSE`, to run a custom script before launching Rscript use `sparklyr.apply.options.rscript.before`.

### Examples

    ## Not run:

    library(sparklyr)
    sc <- spark_connect(master = "local")

    # creates an Spark data frame with 10 elements then multiply times 10 in R
    sdf_len(sc, 10) %>% spark_apply(function(df) df * 10)

    ## End(Not run)

[Package sparklyr version 0.8.0 Index]