[SPARK-23780] Failed to use googleVis library with new SparkR

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.1, 2.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.1, 2.4.0
• Component/s: SparkR
• Labels: regression
• Assignee: Felix Cheung
• Reporter: Ivan Dzikovsky
• Created: 23/Mar/18 15:55
• Updated: 22/May/18 19:25
• Resolved: 15/May/18 02:26

Description

I've tried to use googleVis library with Spark 2.2.1, and faced with problem.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Install R with googleVis library.
2. Run SparkR:

   sparkR --master yarn --deploy-mode client
   

3. Run code that uses googleVis:

   library(googleVis)
   df=data.frame(country=c("US", "GB", "BR"), 
                 val1=c(10,13,14), 
                 val2=c(23,12,32))
   Bar <- gvisBarChart(df)
   cat("%html ", Bar$html$chart)
   

Than I got following error message:

Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'googleVis', details:
  call: rematchDefinition(definition, fdef, mnames, fnames, signature)
  error: methods can add arguments to the generic 'toJSON' only if '...' is an argument to the generic
Error : package or namespace load failed for 'googleVis'

But expected result is to get some HTML code output, as it was with Spark 2.1.0.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #21315 (felixcheung)