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Apache Spark for Data Science Cookbook

By : Padma Priya Chitturi
Book Image

Apache Spark for Data Science Cookbook

By: Padma Priya Chitturi

Overview of this book

Spark has emerged as the most promising big data analytics engine for data science professionals. The true power and value of Apache Spark lies in its ability to execute data science tasks with speed and accuracy. Spark’s selling point is that it combines ETL, batch analytics, real-time stream analysis, machine learning, graph processing, and visualizations. It lets you tackle the complexities that come with raw unstructured data sets with ease. This guide will get you comfortable and confident performing data science tasks with Spark. You will learn about implementations including distributed deep learning, numerical computing, and scalable machine learning. You will be shown effective solutions to problematic concepts in data science using Spark’s data science libraries such as MLLib, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, and more. These simple and efficient recipes will show you how to implement algorithms and optimize your work.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Apache Spark for Data Science Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Installing R


In this recipe, we will see how to install R on Linux.

Getting ready…

To step through this recipe, you need Ubuntu 14.04 (Linux flavor) installed on the machine.

How to do it…

Here are the steps in the installation of R:

  1. The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) contains precompiled binary distributions of the base system and contributed packages. It also contains source code for all the platforms. Add the security key as follows:

    sudo apt-key adv --keyserver 
           keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys   
           E084DAB9
    
  2. Add the CRAN repository to the end of /etc/apt/sources.list:

       deb https://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/
    
  3. Install R as follows:

      sudo apt-get update
      sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev
    

This will install R and the recommended packages, and additional packages can be installed using install.packages("<package>"). The packages on CRAN are updated on a regular basis and the most recent versions will usually be available within a couple...