R: Create an RDD from a text file.

textFile {SparkR}

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Create an RDD from a text file.

Description

This function reads a text file from HDFS, a local file system (available on all nodes), or any Hadoop-supported file system URI, and creates an RDD of strings from it.

Usage

textFile(sc, path, minSplits = NULL)

Arguments

`sc`	SparkContext to use
`path`	Path of file to read. A vector of multiple paths is allowed.
`minSplits`	Minimum number of splits to be created. If NULL, the default value is chosen based on available parallelism.

Value

RDD where each item is of type character

Examples

## Not run: 
##D  sc <- sparkR.init()
##D  lines <- textFile(sc, "myfile.txt")
## End(Not run)

[Package SparkR version 0.1 Index]