[SPARK-15672] R programming guide update

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: SparkR
• Target Version/s: 2.0.0
• Assignee: Kai Jiang
• Reporter: Shivaram Venkataraman
• Created: 31/May/16 15:58
• Updated: 28/Jun/16 20:46
• Resolved: 22/Jun/16 19:50

Description

Update the the programming guide (i.e. the document at http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sparkr.html) to cover the major new features in Spark 2.0. This will include
(a) UDFs with dapply, dapplyCollect
(b) spark.lapply for running parallel R functions

Issue Links

• contains: SPARK-15129 Clarify conventions for calling Spark and MLlib from R
• contains: SPARK-16112 R programming guide update for gapply and gapplyCollect
• Is contained by: SPARK-15069 GSoC 2016: Exposing more R and Python APIs for MLlib
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #13660 (vectorijk)