[SPARK-17736] Update R README for rmarkdown, pandoc

• Type: Documentation
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.2, 2.1.0
• Component/s: Documentation, SparkR
• Target Version/s: 2.0.2, 2.1.0
• Assignee: Jagadeesan A S
• Reporter: Joseph K. Bradley
• Created: 29/Sep/16 21:33
• Updated: 03/Oct/16 09:49
• Resolved: 03/Oct/16 09:46

Description

To build R docs (which are built when R tests are run), users need to install pandoc and rmarkdown. This was done for Jenkins in SPARK-17420.

We should document these dependencies here:
https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/docs/README.md#prerequisites

Issue Links

• is related to: SPARK-17420 Install rmarkdown R package on Jenkins machines
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #15309 (jagadeesanas2)