Simply no. Currently SparkR is the R API of Spark DataFrame, no existing algorithms can benefit from it unless they are re-written to be based on the API.
There is on-going development on supporting MLlib and ML Pipelines in SparkR: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-6805 From: Mohit Anchlia [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2015 1:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: SparkR Does SparkR support all the algorithms that R library supports?
