Hi RJ, Spark Shell instantiates a SparkContext for you named "sc". In other apps, the user instantiates it themself and can give the variable whatever name they want, e.g. "spark".
-Sandy On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 8:36 AM, RJ Nowling <rnowl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > The examples listed here > > https://spark.apache.org/examples.html > > refer to the spark context as "spark" but when running Spark Shell > uses "sc" for the SparkContext. > > Am I missing something? > > Thanks! > > RJ > > > -- > em rnowl...@gmail.com > c 954.496.2314 >
