Register a Parallel Backend

R/do_spark.R

registerDoSpark

Description

Registers a parallel backend using the foreach package.

Usage

 
registerDoSpark(spark_conn, parallelism = NULL, ...) 

Arguments

Arguments Description
spark_conn Spark connection to use
parallelism Level of parallelism to use for task execution (if unspecified, then it will take the value of SparkContext.defaultParallelism() which by default is the number of cores available to the sparklyr application)
additional options for sparklyr parallel backend (currently only the only valid option is nocompile = T, F )

Value

None

Examples

library(sparklyr)
 
 
sc <- spark_connect(master = "local") 
registerDoSpark(sc, nocompile = FALSE)