Introduction

Over the past months, we published and refined a series of posts on Using Spark from R for performance with arbitrary code. Since the posts have grown in size and scope the blogposts were no longer the best medium to share the content in the way most useful to the readers, we decided to compile a publication instead and open-source it for all readers to use freely.

In this post, we present Using Spark from R for performance, an open-source online publication that …