RHadoop : Reading CSV using rhdfs

[RHadoop:#104] How to read hdfs file into data frame

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RHadoop : Reading CSV using rhdfs

Here is a small code snippet on how to read the csv data from HDFS using rhdfs (RHadoop)

rhdfs uses rJava and the buffersize is limited by the heapsize. By default the size of the buffer is set to 5Mb in rhdfs. The source code for rhdfs can be found  here.

HADOOP_CMD environment should point to the hadoop.

Sys.setenv(HADOOP_CMD="/bin/hadoop")

library(rhdfs)
hdfs.init()

f = hdfs.file("fulldata.csv","r",buffersize=104857600)
m = hdfs.read(f)
c = rawToChar(m)

data = read.table(textConnection(c), sep = ",")

## Alternatively You can use hdfs.line.reader()

reader = hdfs.line.reader("fulldata.csv")
 
x = reader$read()
typeof(x)
## [1] "character"