This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.rstudio.com/blog/sparklyr-0-6
We’re excited to announce a new release of the sparklyr package, available in CRAN today! sparklyr 0.6 introduces new features to:
Distribute R computations using spark_apply() to execute arbitrary R code across your Spark cluster. You can now use all of your favorite R packages and functions in a distributed context. Connect to External Data Sources using spark_read_source(), spark_write_source(), spark_read_jdbc() and spark_write_jdbc(). Use the Latest Frameworks including dplyr 0.7, DBI 0.