Coincidentally, R on Spark (SparkR) is also announced today: http://databricks.com/blog/2015/06/09/announcing-sparkr-r-on-spark.html http://databricks.com/blog/

Coincidentally, R on Spark (SparkR) is also announced today: http://databricks.com/blog/2015/06/09/announcing-sparkr-r-on-spark.html http://databricks.com/blog/2015/06/09/announcing-sparkr-r-on... It will appear in Spark 1.4 to use R on a cluster of machines, or a single machine with multicores.