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Hossein Falaki commented on SPARK-10903: ---------------------------------------- +1 We have seen a lot of questions from new SparkR users about the life cycle of the context. My question is: are we going to remove or deprecate sparkRSQL.init()? I suggest we should, because right now calling that method creates a new Java SQLContext object, and having two of them prevents users form viewing temp tables. > Make sqlContext global > ----------------------- > > Key: SPARK-10903 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-10903 > Project: Spark > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: SparkR > Reporter: Narine Kokhlikyan > Priority: Minor > > Make sqlContext global so that we don't have to always specify it. > e.g. createDataFrame(iris) instead of createDataFrame(sqlContext, iris) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@spark.apache.org