Thank you both for your comments. My bad for not following up sooner. The replies didn't show up in my mailbox for some reason.
I tried building Zeppelin with only the Psparkr option as Jeff suggested, but the interpreter still didn't show up. Here is my building script: mvn clean package -DskipTests -Pspark-1.6 -Phadoop-2.6 -Pyarn -Ppyspark -Psparkr 1) There was no messages regarding 'sparkr interpreter' at the end of build log, where it shows other interpreters were installed correctly. ... [INFO] Zeppelin: Spark dependencies ....................... SUCCESS [ 39.552 s] [INFO] Zeppelin: Spark .................................... SUCCESS [ 19.173 s] [INFO] Zeppelin: Markdown interpreter ..................... SUCCESS [ 0.294 s] [INFO] Zeppelin: Angular interpreter ...................... SUCCESS [ 0.253 s] ... 2) '%sparkr' is not in the 'interpreter binding' section in Zeppelin Settings after I started it. The first line has: "spark %spark (default), %pyspark, %sql, %dep", but no %sparkr. Could you kindly point me to where I can find dependencies of R that are required for Zeppelin? I went through the github documentation ( link <https://github.com/apache/incubator-zeppelin/blob/master/README.md> ) and couldn't find requirement of R dependencies. Thanks again, Ethan -- View this message in context: http://apache-zeppelin-incubating-dev-mailing-list.75694.x6.nabble.com/SparkR-interpreter-question-tp8848p8922.html Sent from the Apache Zeppelin (incubating) dev mailing list mailing list archive at Nabble.com.