BUILDING.md

Building SparkR on Windows

To build SparkR on Windows, the following steps are required

1. Install R (>= 3.1) and Rtools. Make sure to include Rtools and R in PATH.
2. Install JDK7 and set JAVA_HOME in the system environment variables.
3. Download and install Maven. Also include the bin directory in Maven in PATH.
4. Get SparkR source code either using git or by downloading a source zip from github.
5. Open a command shell (cmd) in the SparkR directory and run install-dev.bat