sparkR - Error in socketConnection(port = monitorPort)

[#1]

I have centos 7.1.

On my multinode Hadoop cluster (2.3.4) I have , through Ambari, installed spark 1.5.2. I am trying to connect to sparkR from CLI and after I run sparkR I get the following error:

Error in value[[3L]](cond) : Failed to connect JVM In addition: Warning message: In socketConnection(host = hostname, port = port, server = FALSE, : localhost:9001 cannot be opened

The port (9001) is opened on the namenode (where Im running sparkR) Do you have any ideas what Im doing wrong? Ive seen this link: http://hortonworks.com/hadoop-tutorial/apache-spark-1-5-1-technical-preview-with-hdp-2-3/

and I followed also this link:

http://www.jason-french.com/blog/2013/03/11/installing-r-in-linux/

To install R on all datanodes. I appreicate your contribution.

[#2]

@Neeraj Sabharwal, @Artem Ervits

Im going to give it a try on Ubuntu 14.04 today.

Neeraj, you mentioned some other people are having the same problems. Can you give more information. How did they solve it?

[#3 · Accepted solution]

@Neeraj Sabharwal, @Artem Ervits

I made it work now!

Ive used Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty, installed manually Spark 1.4.1 and set up sparkR. Now, I dont know if the problem was in centos 7.2, but the installment of R was different than what Ive done earlier and from what it says here:

http://www.jason-french.com/blog/2013/03/11/installing-r-in-linux/

If you guys want, I can try the same on centos 7.2 and report. If you want, I can describe the process of preparing the environment for using sparkR. I will also try on other spark versions. We depend on R because of the research.

Let me know if there is interest.

[#4]

@marko

I am interested to know more on this

[#5]

@Neeraj Sabharwal

I needed some more time to test it on spark 1.4.1 and 1.5.2. I also put it in a nice form. Here is the process Ive taken in order to get sparkR running:

https://markobigdata.wordpress.com/2016/02/22/installing-r-on-hadoop-cluster-to-run-sparkr/