Both are free to use; you can use sparklyr from the R shell without RStudio (but you probably want an IDE)
________________________________ From: Adaryl Wakefield <adaryl.wakefi...@hotmail.com> Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2017 11:19:24 AM To: user@spark.apache.org Subject: using R with Spark There are two packages SparkR and sparklyr. Sparklyr seems to be the more useful. However, do you have to pay to use it? Unless I’m not reading this right, it seems you have to have the paid version of RStudio to use it. Adaryl "Bob" Wakefield, MBA Principal Mass Street Analytics, LLC 913.938.6685 www.massstreet.net<http://www.massstreet.net/> www.linkedin.com/in/bobwakefieldmba<http://www.linkedin.com/in/bobwakefieldmba> Twitter: @BobLovesData<http://twitter.com/BobLovesData>