| sparkR.newJObject {SparkR} | R Documentation |
Create a new Java object in the JVM running the Spark driver. The return value is automatically converted to an R object for simple objects. Other values are returned as a "jobj" which is a reference to an object on JVM.
sparkR.newJObject(x, ...)
x |
fully qualified Java class name. |
... |
arguments to be passed to the constructor. |
This is a low level function to access the JVM directly and should only be used for advanced use cases. The arguments and return values that are primitive R types (like integer, numeric, character, lists) are automatically translated to/from Java types (like Integer, Double, String, Array). A full list can be found in serialize.R and deserialize.R in the Apache Spark code base.
the object created. Either returned as a R object if it can be deserialized or returned as a "jobj". See details section for more.
sparkR.newJObject since 2.0.1
sparkR.callJMethod, sparkR.callJStatic
## Not run:
##D sparkR.session() # Need to have a Spark JVM running before calling newJObject
##D # Create a Java ArrayList and populate it
##D jarray <- sparkR.newJObject("java.util.ArrayList")
##D sparkR.callJMethod(jarray, "add", 42L)
##D sparkR.callJMethod(jarray, "get", 0L) # Will print 42
## End(Not run)