Github user felixcheung commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/10836#discussion_r50219109
--- Diff: R/README.md ---
@@ -1,6 +1,16 @@
# R on Spark
SparkR is an R package that provides a light-weight frontend to use Spark
from R.
+### Installing sparkR
+
+Libraries of sparkR need to be created in `$SPARK_HOME/R/lib`. This can be
done by running the script `$SPARK_HOME/R/install-dev.sh`.
--- End diff --
actually, this line
```.libPaths(c(file.path(Sys.getenv("SPARK_HOME"), "R", "lib"),
.libPaths()))```
added SPARK_HOME/R/lib into R's lib path and allows R, any running version,
to load SparkR package from there - SparkR packages does not need to be
installed with `R CMD INSTALL` (in install-dev.sh) at all.
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