I looked into this and found the problem. Will send a PR now to fix this.
If you are curious about what is happening here: When we build the
docs separately we don't have the JAR files from the Spark build in
the same tree. We added a new set of docs recently in SparkR called an
R vignette that ru
FWIW it worked for me, but I may not be executing the same thing. I
was running the commands given in R/DOCUMENTATION.md
It succeeded for me in creating the vignette, on branch-2.0.
Maybe it's a version or library issue? what R do you have installed,
and are you up to date with packages like devt