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how to use R in databricks

JCamiloCS — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 23:33:42 GMT

Hello everyone.

I am a new user of databricks, they implemented it in the company where I work. I am a business analyst and I know something about R, not much either, when I saw that databricks could use R I was very excited because I thought that the knowledge I had in R, although basic, could support me to start in databricks. Unfortunately, the emotion soon turned into frustration, disappointment and helplessness. I have read a couple of articles to run R on databricks but the attempts I make result in error after error, it seems that nothing I know about Rbase, tidyverse, ggplot2 will work in databricks. That's why I go to the R experts in databricks because I'm already tired of experimenting. If you can support me with resources where I can learn how to use R in databricks, I would greatly appreciate it, preferably in Spanish, but other languages are fine.

I hope that those who learned in R understand my emotions a little and forgive the length of the post, I don't want it to feel like a complaint.

It should be noted that I do not know the Python language, so I was hoping to find a familiar environment so that I would not have to start learning another language and delay my startup process with databrick.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance

Re: how to use R in databricks

karine — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 09:00:43 GMT

Hello JCamiloCS, did you get out of it?

We have had the same question, so I just wonder if you find any good guidance?

Re: how to use R in databricks

Rens — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 07:44:47 GMT

There are some existing posts about using R in databricks:
https://docs.gcp.databricks.com/en/sparkr/index.html

https://docs.databricks.com/en/dev-tools/databricks-connect/cluster-config.html

Once you have the correct cluster started (this post is about an error I encountered, you must make a personal compute: https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-governance/recommended-access-mode-for-multiple-users-with-r-code/td-p/21923), using R is easy. You can just start a notebook with R syntax and it should automatically recognize that you're coding in R.

But hopefully you've already figured it out by now..