Category: drill
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Reading PCAP Files with Apache Drill and the sergeant R Package
It's no secret that I'm a fan of Apache Drill . One big strength of the platform is that it normalizes the access to diverse data sources down to ANSI SQL calls, which means that I can pull data from parquet, Hie, HBase, Kudu, CSV, JSON,…
Ten-HUT! The Apache Drill R interface package — sergeant — is now on CRAN
I'm extremely pleased to announce that the sergeant package is now on CRAN or will be hitting your local CRAN mirror…
Replicating the Apache Drill 'Yelp' Academic Dataset Analysis with sergeant
The Apache Drill folks have a nice walk-through tutorial on how to analyze the Yelp Academic Dataset with Drill . It's a bit out of date (the current Yelp data set structure is different enough that the tutorial will error out at various…
Drilling Into CSVs — Teaser Trailer
I used reading a directory of CSVs as the foundational example in my recent post on idioms…
Create Parquet Files From R Data Frames With sergeant & Apache Drill (a.k.a. Make Parquet Files Great Again in R)
When you're in this larger-data world, parquet files are one of the core data storage formats. They're designed to be compact and are optimized for columnar operations. Unlike CSV, JSON files or even R Data files, it's not necessary to…
2017-01 Authored Package Updates
The rest of the month is going to be super-hectic and it's unlikely I'll be able to do any more to help the push to CRAN 10K, so here's a breakdown of CRAN and GitHub new packages & package updates that I felt were worth raising awareness…
sergeant : An R Boot Camp for Apache Drill
I recently mentioned that I've been working on a development version of an Apache Drill R package called sergeant . Here's a lifted "TLDR" on…