In this post I will go over installing Apache Spark and initial interactions from within R. I am currently using Linux/Ubuntu 20.04 so the instruction are tailored to my environment. The process should be similar to other Linux distributions as well as Mac and Microsoft environments. Getting Apache Spark There are a couple routes to…
Currently, the Julia programming language version that is available in the APT package management interface is 1.4.1, which was released by Julia on 2020-04-14. Recently I decided to just get the latest and greatest stable version that was released 2020-11-09. In going through the process, I thought it would be helpful to document it for…
UPDATE (8-JAN-2021): I have decided to demonstrate the conversion process using my Getting COVID-19 Data post and script instead of my Criminal Analysis project for right now. I will still be working through the conversion process for those scripts as well, but for now, I will demonstrate the conversion and translation process on a shorter…
As part of my Criminal Analysis project, I have been initially coding everything in R. I am going to eventually convert everything to Python then probably to Julia. In preparation for this, I created my project directory to reflect this (as seen below). The following operations in the command line interface (CLI) will be in…
