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Felix Cheung commented on SPARK-10903: -------------------------------------- +1 perhaps sparkR.init() should create sqlContext and/or hiveCtx together. But [~falaki], as of now calling sparkRSQL.init() *should* return the same one as you can see https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/R/pkg/R/sparkR.R#L224 > 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