This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.rstudio.com/blog/sparklyr-0-9
Today we are excited to share that a new release of sparklyr is available on CRAN! This 0.9 release enables you to:
Create Spark structured streams to process real time data from many data sources using dplyr, SQL, pipelines, and arbitrary R code. Monitor connection progress with upcoming RStudio Preview 1.2 features and support for properly interrupting Spark jobs from R. Use Kubernetes clusters with sparklyr to simplify deployment and maintenance.