[SPARK-27446] RBackend always uses default values for spark confs

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.4.1
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: SparkR
• Assignee: Bago Amirbekian
• Reporter: Bago Amirbekian
• Created: 11/Apr/19 20:41
• Updated: 12/Dec/22 18:10
• Resolved: 14/Apr/19 08:10

Description

The RBackend and RBackendHandler create new conf objects that don't pick up conf values from the existing SparkSession and therefore always use the default conf values instead of values specified by the user.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #24353