RevoScaleR-deprecated: Deprecated functions in RevoScaleR

Description

These functions are provided for compatibility with older versions of RevoScaleR only, and may be defunct as soon as the next release.

Usage

  rxGetNodes(headNode, includeHeadNode = FALSE, makeRNodeNames = FALSE, getWorkersOnly=TRUE) 
  RxHpcServer(object, headNode = "", revoPath = NULL, shareDir = "", workingDir = NULL,
              dataPath = NULL, outDataPath = NULL, wait = TRUE, consoleOutput = FALSE, 
              configFile = NULL, nodes = NULL, computeOnHeadNode = FALSE, minElems = -1, maxElems = -1,
              priority = 2, exclusive = FALSE, autoCleanup = TRUE, dataDistType = "all", 
              packagesToLoad = NULL, email = NULL, resultsTimeout = 15, groups = "ComputeNodes"
              )
                
  rxImportToXdf(inSource, outSource, rowSelection = NULL, 
          transforms = NULL, transformObjects = NULL,
          transformFunc = NULL, transformVars = NULL, 
          transformPackages = NULL, transformEnvir = NULL,
          append = "none", overwrite = FALSE, numRows = -1,
          maxRowsByCols = NULL,
          reportProgress = rxGetOption("reportProgress"),
          verbose = 0, 
          xdfCompressionLevel = rxGetOption("xdfCompressionLevel"),
          createCompositeSet = NULL,
          blocksPerCompositeFile = 3
          )
  
  rxDataStepXdf(inFile, outFile, varsToKeep = NULL, varsToDrop = NULL,
          rowSelection = NULL, transforms = NULL, transformObjects = NULL,
          transformFunc = NULL, transformVars = NULL, 
          transformPackages = NULL, transformEnvir = NULL,
          append = "none", overwrite = FALSE, removeMissingsOnRead = FALSE, removeMissings = FALSE, 
          computeLowHigh = TRUE, maxRowsByCols = 3000000, 
          rowsPerRead = -1, startRow = 1, numRows = -1, 
          startBlock = 1, numBlocks = -1, returnTransformObjects = FALSE,
          inSourceArgs = NULL, blocksPerRead = rxGetOption("blocksPerRead"),
          reportProgress = rxGetOption("reportProgress"), 
          xdfCompressionLevel = rxGetOption("xdfCompressionLevel"),
          checkVarsToKeep = TRUE, cppInterp = NULL)    
          
  rxDataFrameToXdf(data, outFile, varsToKeep = NULL, varsToDrop = NULL,
                   rowVarName = NULL, append = "none", overwrite = FALSE,
                   computeLowHigh = TRUE,  
                   xdfCompressionLevel = rxGetOption("xdfCompressionLevel")) 
                   
  rxXdfToDataFrame(file, varsToKeep = NULL, varsToDrop = NULL, rowVarName = NULL,
                   rowSelection = NULL, transforms = NULL, transformObjects = NULL,
                   transformFunc = NULL, transformVars = NULL, 
                   transformPackages = NULL, transformEnvir = NULL,  
                   removeMissings = FALSE, stringsAsFactors = FALSE,
                   blocksPerRead = rxGetOption("blocksPerRead"),
                   maxRowsByCols = 3000000,
                   reportProgress = rxGetOption("reportProgress"),
                   cppInterp = NULL)   
                   
  rxSortXdf(inFile, outFile, sortByVars, decreasing = FALSE,
            type = "auto", missingsLow = TRUE, caseSensitive = FALSE,
            removeDupKeys = FALSE, varsToKeep = NULL, varsToDrop = NULL, 
            dupFreqVar = NULL, overwrite = FALSE, bufferLimit = -1, 
            reportProgress = rxGetOption("reportProgress"), 
            verbose = 0, xdfCompressionLevel = rxGetOption("xdfCompressionLevel"),
            blocksPerRead = -1,  ...)                                        		
                  
  RxHadoopMR(object, 
                hdfsShareDir = paste( "/user/RevoShare", Sys.info()[["user"]], sep="/" ),
                shareDir = paste( "/var/RevoShare", Sys.info()[["user"]], sep="/" ),
                clientShareDir = rxGetDefaultTmpDirByOS(),
                hadoopRPath = rxGetOption("unixRPath"),
                hadoopSwitches = "",
                revoPath = rxGetOption("unixRPath"),
                sshUsername = Sys.info()[["user"]],
                sshHostname = NULL,
                sshSwitches = "",
                sshProfileScript = NULL,
                sshClientDir = "",
                usingRunAsUserMode = FALSE,
                nameNode = rxGetOption("hdfsHost"),
                jobTrackerURL = NULL,
                port = rxGetOption("hdfsPort"),
                onClusterNode = NULL,
                wait = TRUE,
                consoleOutput = FALSE,
                showOutputWhileWaiting = TRUE,
                autoCleanup = TRUE,
                workingDir = NULL,
                dataPath = NULL,
                outDataPath = NULL,
                fileSystem = NULL,
                packagesToLoad = NULL,
                resultsTimeout = 15,
                ...  )
 

Arguments

inSource

a non-RxXdfData RxDataSource object representing the input data source or a non-empty character string representing a file path. If a character string is supplied, the type of file is inferred from its extension, with the default being a text file.

file

either an RxXdfData object or a character string specifying the .xdf file.

outSource

an RxXdfData object or non-empty character string representing the output .xdf file.

outFile

a character string specifying the output .xdf file, an RxXdfData object, a RxOdbcData data source, or a RxTeradata data source. If NULL, a data frame will be returned from rxDataStep unless returnTransformObjects is set to TRUE. Setting outFile to NULL and returnTransformObjects=TRUE allows chunkwise computations on the data without modifying the existing data or creating a new data set. outFile can also be a delimited RxTextData data source if using a native file system and not appending.

rowSelection

name of a logical variable in the data set (in quotes) or a logical expression using variables in the data set to specify row selection. For example, rowSelection = "old" will use only observations in which the value of the variable old is TRUE. rowSelection = (age > 20) & (age < 65) & (log(income) > 10) will use only observations in which the value of the age variable is between 20 and 65 and the value of the log of the income variable is greater than 10. The row selection is performed after processing any data transformations (see the arguments transforms or transformFunc). As with all expressions, rowSelection can be defined outside of the function call using the expression function.

transforms

an expression of the form list(name = expression, ...) representing the first round of variable transformations. As with all expressions, transforms (or rowSelection) can be defined outside of the function call using the expression function.

transformObjects

a named list containing objects that can be referenced by transforms, transformsFunc, and rowSelection.

transformFunc

variable transformation function. See rxTransform for details.

transformVars

character vector of input data set variables needed for the transformation function. See rxTransform for details.

transformPackages

character vector defining additional R packages (outside of those specified in rxGetOption("transformPackages")) to be made available and preloaded for use in variable transformation functions, e.g., those explicitly defined in RevoScaleR functions via their transforms and transformFunc arguments or those defined implicitly via their formula or rowSelection arguments. The transformPackages argument may also be NULL, indicating that no packages outside rxGetOption("transformPackages") will be preloaded.

transformEnvir

user-defined environment to serve as a parent to all environments developed internally and used for variable data transformation. If transformEnvir = NULL, a new "hash" environment with parent baseenv() is used instead.

append

either "none" to create a new .xdf file or "rows" to append rows to an existing .xdf file. If outSource exists and append is "none", the overwrite argument must be set to TRUE.

overwrite

logical value. If TRUE, the existing outSource will be overwritten.

numRows

integer value specifying the maximum number of rows to import. If set to -1, all rows will be imported.

maxRowsByCols

the maximum size of a data frame that will be read in if outData is set to NULL, measured by the number of rows times the number of columns. If the number of rows times the number of columns being imported exceeds this, a warning will be reported and a smaller number of rows will be read in than requested. If maxRowsByCols is set to be too large, you may experience problems from loading a huge data frame into memory.

reportProgress

integer value with options:

  • 0: no progress is reported.
  • 1: the number of processed rows is printed and updated.
  • 2: rows processed and timings are reported.
  • 3: rows processed and all timings are reported.

verbose

integer value. If 0, no additional output is printed. If 1, information on the import type is printed.

xdfCompressionLevel

integer in the range of -1 to 9. The higher the value, the greater the amount of compression - resulting in smaller files but a longer time to create them. If xdfCompressionLevel is set to 0, there will be no compression and files will be compatible with the 6.0 release of Revolution R Enterprise. If set to -1, a default level of compression will be used.

createCompositeSet

logical value or NULL. If TRUE, a composite set of files will be created instead of a single .xdf file. A directory will be created whose name is the same as the .xdf file that would otherwise be created, but with no extension. Subdirectories data and metadata will be created. In the data subdirectory, the data will be split across a set of .xdfd files (see blocksPerCompositeFile below for determining how many blocks of data will be in each file). In the metadata subdirectory there is a single .xdfm file, which contains the meta data for all of the .xdfd files in the data subdirectory. When the compute context is RxHadoopMR a composite set of files is always created.

blocksPerCompositeFile

integer value. If createCompositeSet=TRUE, and if the compute context is not RxHadoopMR, this will be the number of blocks put into each .xdfd file in the composite set. When importing is being done on Hadoop using MapReduce, the number of rows per .xdfd file is determined by the rows assigned to each MapReduce task, and the number of blocks per .xdfd file is therefore determined by rowsPerRead. If the outSource is an RxXdfData object, set the value for blocksPerCompositeFile there instead.

inFile

either an RxXdfData object or a character string specifying the input .xdf file.

varsToKeep

character vector of variable names to include when reading from the input data file. If NULL, argument is ignored. Cannot be used with varsToDrop or when outFile is the same as the input data file. Variables used in transformations or row selection will be retained even if not specified in varsToKeep. If newName is used in colInfo in a non-xdf data source, the newName should be used in varsToKeep. Not supported for RxTeradata, RxOdbcData, or RxSqlServerData data sources.

varsToDrop

character vector of variable names to exclude when reading from the input data file. If NULL, argument is ignored. Cannot be used with varsToKeep or when outFile is the same as the input data file. Variables used in transformations or row selection will be retained even if specified in varsToDrop. If newName is used in colInfo in a non-xdf data source, the newName should be used in varsToDrop. Not supported for RxTeradata, RxOdbcData, or RxSqlServerData data sources.

removeMissingsOnRead

logical value. If TRUE, rows with missing values will be removed on read.

removeMissings

logical value. If TRUE, rows with missing values will not be included in the output data.

computeLowHigh

logical value. If FALSE, low and high values will not automatically be computed. This should only be set to FALSE in special circumstances, such as when append is being used repeatedly. Ignored for data frames.

rowsPerRead

number of rows to read for each chunk of data read from the input data source. Use this argument for finer control of the number of rows per block in the output data source. If greater than 0, blocksPerRead is ignored. Cannot be used if inFile is the same as outFile. The default value of -1 specifies that data should be read by blocks according to the blocksPerRead argument.

startRow

the starting row to read from the input data source. Cannot be used if inFile is the same as outFile.

returnTransformObjects

logical value. If TRUE, the list of transformObjects will be returned instead of a data frame or data source object. If the input transformObjects have been modified, by using .rxSet or .rxModify in the transformFunc, the updated values will be returned. Any data returned from the transformFunc is ignored. If no transformObjects are used, NULL is returned. This argument allows for user-defined computations within a transformFunc without creating new data. returnTransformObjects is not supported in distributed compute contexts such as RxHadoopMR.

startBlock

starting block to read. Ignored if startRow is set to greater than 1.

numBlocks

number of blocks to read; all are read if set to -1. Ignored if numRows is not set to -1.

blocksPerRead

number of blocks to read for each chunk of data read from the data source. Ignored for data frames or if rowsPerRead is positive.

inSourceArgs

an optional list of arguments to be applied to the input data source.

checkVarsToKeep

logical value. If TRUE variable names specified in varsToKeep will be checked against variables in the data set to make sure they exist. An error will be reported if not found. Ignored if more than 500 variables in the data set.

headNode

A compute context (preferred), a jobInfo object, or (deprecated) a character scalar containing the name of the head node of a Microsoft HPC cluster.

includeHeadNode

logical scalar. Indicates whether to include the name of the head node in the list of returned nodes.

makeRNodeNames

Determines if the names of the nodes should be normalized for use as R variables. See also rxMakeRNodeNames for details on name mangeling.

getWorkersOnly

logical. If TRUE, returns only those nodes within the cluster that are configured to actually execute jobs (where applicable).

object

object of class RxHpcServer. This argument is optional. If supplied, the values of the other specified arguments are used to replace those of object and the modified object is returned.

revoPath

character string specifying the path to the directory on the cluster nodes containing the files R.exe and Rterm.exe. The invocation of R on each node must be identical (this is an HPC constraint). See the Details section for more information regarding the path format.

shareDir

character string specifying the directory on the head node that is shared among all the nodes of the cluster and any client host. You must have permissions to read and write in this directory. See the Details section for more information regarding the path format.

workingDir

character string specifying a working directory for the processes on the cluster. If NULL, will default to the standard Windows user directory (that is, the value of the environment variable USERPROFILE).

dataPath

character vector defining the search path(s) for the data source(s). See the Details section for more information regarding the path format.

outDataPath

NULL or character vector defining the search path(s) for new output data file(s). If not NULL, this overrides any specification for dataPath in rxOptions

wait

logical value. If TRUE, the job will be blocking and will not return until it has completed or has failed. If FALSE, the job will be non-blocking return immediately, allowing you to continue running other R code. The object rxgLastPendingJob is created with the job information. You can pass this object to the rxGetJobStatus function to check on the processing status of the job. rxWaitForJob will change a non-waiting job to a waiting job. Conversely, pressing ESC changes a waiting job to a non-waiting job, provided that the HPC scheduler has accepted the job. If you press ESC before the job has been accepted, the job is canceled.

consoleOutput

logical scalar. If TRUE, causes the standard output of the R processes to be printed to the user console.

configFile

character string specifying the path to the XML template (on your local computer) that will be consumed by the job scheduler. If NULL (the default), the standard template is used. See the Details section for more information regarding the path format. We recommend that the user rely upon the default setting for configFile.

nodes

character string containing a comma-separated list of requested nodes, e.g., "compute1,compute2,compute3", or a character vector like c("compute1", "compute2", "compute3"). If you specify the nodes to be used, minElems and maxElems are ignored if greater than the number of specified nodes. See the Details section for more information. The nodes parameter forces use of the specified nodes, rather than simply requesting them. This feature is provided so that jobs requiring only 10 out of 100 nodes, for example, do not force you to deploy your data to all 100 nodes. Should you need finer control, you will need to generate a new XML template through the MS HPC job scheduler. See the Microsoft HPC Server 2008 documentation for details.

computeOnHeadNode

If FALSE and nodes are automatically being selected, the head node of the cluster will not be among the nodes to be used. Furthermore, if FALSE and the head node is explicitly specified in the node list, a warning is issued, but the job proceeds with a warning and the head node excluded from the node list. If TRUE, then the head node is treated exactly as any other node for the purpose of job resource allocations. Note that setting this flag to TRUE does not guarantee inclusion of the head node in a job; it simply allows the head node to be listed in an explicit list, or to be included by automatic node usage generation.

minElems

minimum number of nodes required for a run. If -1, the value for maxElems is used. If both minElems and maxElems are -1, the number of nodes specified in the nodes argument is used. See the Details section for more information.

maxElems

maximum number of nodes required for a run. If -1, the value for minElems is used. If both minElems and maxElems are -1, the number of nodes specified in the nodes argument is used. See the Details section for more information.

priority

The priority of the job. Allowable values are 0 (lowest), 1 (below normal), 2 (normal, the default), 3 (above normal), and 4 (highest). See the Microsoft HPC Server 2008 documentation for using job scheduling policy options and job templates to manage job priorities. These policy options may also affect the behavior of the exclusive argument.

exclusive

logical value. If TRUE, no other jobs can run on a compute node at the same time as this job. This may fail if you do not have administrative privileges on the cluster, and may also fail depending on the settings of your job scheduling policy options.

autoCleanup

logical scalar. If TRUE, the default behavior is to clean up the temporary computational artifacts and delete the result objects upon retrival. If FALSE, then the computational results are not deleted, and the results may be acquired using rxGetJobResults, and the output via rxGetJobOutput until the rxCleanupJobs is used to delete the results and other artifacts. Leaving this flag set to FALSE can result in accumulation of compute artifacts which you may eventually need to delete before they fill up your hard drive.If you set autoCleanup=TRUEand experience performance degradation on a Windows XP client, consider setting autoCleanup=FALSE.

dataDistType

a character string denoting how the data has been distributed. Type "all" means that the entire data set has been copied to each compute node. Type "split" means that the data set has been partitioned and that each compute node contains a different set of rows.

packagesToLoad

optional character vector specifying additional packages to be loaded on the nodes when jobs are run in this compute context.

email

optional character string specifying an email address to which a job complete email should be sent. Note that the cluster administrator will have to enable email notifications for such job completion mails to be received.

resultsTimeout

A numeric value indicating for how long attempts should be made to retrieve results from the cluster. Under normal conditions, results are available immediately upon completion of the job. However, under certain high load conditions, the processes on the nodes have reported as completed, but the results have not been fully committed to disk by the operating system. Increase this parameter if results retrievial is failing on high load clusters.

groups

Optional character vector specifying the groups from which nodes should be selected. If groupsis specified and nodes is NULL, all the nodes in the groups specified will be candidates for computations. If both nodes and groups are specified, the candidate nodes will be the intersection of the set of nodes explicitly specified in nodes and the set of all the nodes in the groups specified. Note that the default value of "ComputeNodes" is the name of the Microsoft defined group that includes all physically present nodes. Another Microsoft default group name used is "HeadNodes" which includes all nodes set up to act as head nodes. While these default names can be changed, this is not recommended. Note also that rxGetNodeInfo will honor group filtering. See the help for rxGetNodeInfo for more information.

data

data frame to put into .xdf file. See details section for a listing of the supported column types in the data frame.

rowVarName

character string or NULL. If NULL, the data frame's row names will be dropped. If a character string, an additional variable of that name will be added to the data set containing the data frame's row names.

stringsAsFactors

logical indicating whether or not to convert strings into factors in R.

sortByVars

character vector containing the names of the variables to use for sorting. If multiple variables are used, the first sortByVars variable is sorted and common values are grouped. The second variable is then sorted within the first variable groups. The third variable is then sorted within groupings formed by the first two variables, and so on.

decreasing

a logical scalar or vector defining the whether or not the sortByVars variables are to be sorted in decreasing or increasing order. If a vector, the length decreasing must be that of sortByVars. If a logical scalar, the value of decreasing is replicated to the length sortByVars.

type

a character string defining the sorting method to use. Type "auto" automatically determines the sort method based on the amount of memory required for sorting. If possible, all of the data will be sorted in memory. Type "mergeSort" uses a merge sort method, where chunks of data are pre-sorted, then merged together. Type "varByVar" uses a variable-by-variable sort method, which assumes that the sortByVars variables and the calculated sorted index variable can be held in memory simultaneously. If type="varByVar", the variables in the sorted data are re-ordered so that the variables named in sortByVars come first, followed by any remaining variables.

missingsLow

a logical scalar for controlling the treatment of missing values. If TRUE, missing values in the data are treated as the lowest value; if FALSE, they are treated as the highest value.

caseSensitive

a logical scalar. If TRUE, case sensitive sorting is performed for character data.

removeDupKeys

logical scalar. If TRUE, only the first observation will be kept when duplicate values of the key (sortByVars) are encountered. The sort type must be set to "auto" or "mergeSort".

cppInterp

NOT SUPPORTED information to be sent to the C++ interpreter.

...

additional arguments to be passed to the input data source.

object

object of class RxHadoopMR. This argument is optional. If supplied, the values of e other specified arguments are used to replace those of object and the modified object is turned.

hdfsShareDir

character string specifying the file sharing location within HDFS. You must ave permissions to read and write to this location.

shareDir

character string specifying the directory on the master (perhaps edge) node that is ared among all the nodes of the cluster and any client host. You must have permissions to read and write this directory.

clientShareDir

character string specifying the absolute path of the temporary directory on the client. faults to /tmp for POSIX-compliant non-Windows clients. For Windows and non-compliant POSIX clients, faults to the value of the TEMP environment variable if defined, else to the TMP environment variable defined, else to NULL. If the default directory does not exist, defaults to NULL. C paths ("\\host\dir") are not supported.

hadoopRPath

character string specifying the path to the directory on the cluster mpute nodes containing the files R.exe and Rterm.exe. The invocation of R on each de must be identical.

revoPath

character string specifying the path to the directory on the master (perhaps edge) node ntaining the files R.exe and Rterm.exe.

hadoopSwitches

character string specifying optional generic Hadoop command line switches, r example -conf myconf.xml. e http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/CommandsManual.html r details on the Hadoop command line generic options.

sshUsername

character string specifying the username for making an ssh connection to the doop cluster. This is not needed if you are running your R client directly on the cluster. faults to the username of the user running the R client (that is, the value of Sys.info()[["user"]]).

sshHostname

character string specifying the hostname or IP address of the Hadoop cluster de or edge node that the client will log into for launching Hadoop jobs and for copying files tween the client machine and the Hadoop cluster. Defaults to the hostname of the machine running e R client (that is, the value of Sys.info()[["nodename"]]) This field is only used if odeonClusterNode is NULL or FALSE. If you are using PuTTY on a Windows system, this can be the name of a saved PuTTY session that n include the user name and authentication file to use.

sshSwitches

character string specifying any switches needed for making an ssh connection to the doop cluster. This is not needed if one is running one's R client directly on the cluster.

sshProfileScript

Optional character string specifying the absolute path to a profile script that will exists on the hHostname host. This is used when the target ssh host does not automatically read in a .bash_profile, .profile or other shell vironment configuration file for the definition of requisite variables such as HADOOP_STREAMING.

sshClientDir

character string specifying the Windows directory where Cygwin's ssh.exe d scp.exe or PuTTY's plink.exe and pscp.exe executables can be found. Needed only for Windows. t needed if these executables are on the Windows Path or if Cygwin's location can be found in e Windows Registry. Defaults to the empty string.

usingRunAsUserMode

logical scalar specifying whether run-as-user mode is being used on the Hadoop cluster. en using run-as-user mode, local R processes started by the map-reduce framework will run as the same user that started the b, and will have any allocated local permissions. When not using run-as-user mode (the default for many Hadoop systems), cal R processes will run as user mapred. Note that when running as user mapred, permissions for files and directories will ve to be more open in order to allow hand-offs between the user and mapred. n-as-user mode is controlled for the Hadoop map-reduce framework by the xml setting, odemapred.task.tracker.task-controller, in the mapred-site.xml nfiguration file. If it is set to the value org.apache.hadoop.mapred.LinuxTaskController, then n-as-user mode is in use. If it is set to the value org.apache.hadoop.mapred.DefaultTaskController, then n-as-user mode is not in use.

nameNode

character string specifying the Hadoop name node hostname or IP address. pically you can leave this at its default value. set to a value other than "default" or the empty string (see below), is must be an address that can be resolved by the data nodes and used by them to contact the me node. Depending on your cluster, it may need to be set to a private network address ch as "master.local". If set to the empty string, "", then the master process will set is to the name of the node on which it is running, as returned by Sys.info()[["nodename"]]. is is likely to work when the sshHostname points to the name node or the sshHostname is not ecified and the R client is running on the name node. Defaults to rxGetOption("hdfsHost").

jobTrackerURL

character scalar specifying the full URL for the jobtracker web interface. is is used only for the purpose of loading the job tracker web page from the rxLaunchClusterJobManager nvenience function. It is never used for job control, and its specification in the compute context is completely tional. See the rxLaunchClusterJobManager page for more information.

port

numeric scalar specifying the port used by the name node for hadoop jobs. Needs be able to be cast to an integer. Defaults to rxGetOption("hdfsPort").

onClusterNode

logical scalar or NULL specifying whether the user is initiating the job from a client that will connect to ther an edge node or an actual cluster node, directly from either an edge node or node within the cluster. If set to odeFALSE or NULL, then sshHostname must be a valid host.

wait

logical value. If TRUE, the job will be blocking nd will not return until it has completed or has failed. If FALSE, he job will be non-blocking return immediately, lowing you to continue running other R code. The object rxgLastPendingJob is created th the job information. You can pass this object to the oderxGetJobStatus function to check on the processing status of the job. oderxWaitForJob will change a non-waiting job a waiting job. Conversely, pressing ESC changes a waiting job to a non-waiting job, ovided that the HPC scheduler has accepted the job. If you press ESC before the job has en accepted, the job is canceled.

consoleOutput

logical scalar. If TRUE, causes the standard output the R processes to be printed to the user console.

showOutputWhileWaiting

logical scalar. If TRUE, causes the standard output the remote primary R and hadoop job process to be printed to the user console while waiting for (blocking on) job.

autoCleanup

logical scalar. If TRUE, the default behavior is to clean up the mporary computational artifacts and delete the result objects upon retrival. If FALSE, en the computational results are not deleted, and the results may be acquired using oderxGetJobResults, and the output via rxGetJobOutput until the oderxCleanupJobs is used to delete the results and other artifacts. Leaving this ag set to FALSE can result in accumulation of compute artifacts which you may entually need to delete before they fill up your hard drive.

workingDir

character string specifying a working directory for the processes the master node.

dataPath

NOT YET IMPLEMENTED. character vector defining the search path(s) for the data source(s).

outDataPath

NOT YET IMPLEMENTED. NULL or character vector defining the search path(s) for ew output data file(s). If not NULL, this overrides any specification for outDataPathn rxOptions

fileSystem

NULL or an RxHdfsFileSystem to use as the default file system for data sources when created when this compute context is active.

packagesToLoad

optional character vector specifying additional packages to be aded on the nodes when jobs are run in this compute context.

resultsTimeout

A numeric value indicating for how long attempts should be made retrieve results from the cluster. Under normal conditions, results are available immediately. wever, under certain high load conditions, the processes on the nodes have reported as completed, but e results have not been fully committed to disk by the operating system. Increase this parameter results retrievial is failing on high load clusters.

...

additional arguments to be passed directly to the Microsoft R Services Compute Engine.

Details

Use rxImport instead of rxImportToXdf. Use rxDataStep instead of rxDataStepXdf. Use rxDataStep instead of rxDataFrameToXdf. Use rxDataStep instead of rxXdfToDataFrame. Use rxSort instead of rxSortXdf. Use rxGetAvailableNodes instead of rxGetNodes. Use rxSparkConnect instead of RxHadoopMR.

Value

For rxSortXdf: If sorting is successful, TRUE is returned; otherwise FALSEis returned.

See Also

rxImport, rxDataStep, rxSparkConnect, "RevoScaleR-defunct".