[SPARK-6856] Make RDD information more useful in SparkR

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: SparkR
• Labels: Starter
• Target Version/s: 1.4.0
• Assignee: Jeff Harrison
• Reporter: Shivaram Venkataraman
• Created: 11/Apr/15 00:01
• Updated: 30/Apr/15 13:02
• Resolved: 27/Apr/15 20:41

Description

Right now in the R console if you have an rdd named say `distData`, then typing `distData` on the console shows something like

An object of class "RDD"
Slot "env":
<environment: 0x7f9181f52188>

Slot "jrdd":
Java ref type org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaRDD id 86

We should improve this by showing something like in Python

ParallelCollectionRDD[0] at parallelize at PythonRDD.scala:393

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #5667 (His-name-is-Joof)