Could not parse Master URL: 'spark.bluemix.net'

Question

I'm trying to connect to IBM's Spark as a Service running on Bluemix from RStudio running on my desktop machine.

I have copied the config.yml from the automatically configured RStudio environment running on IBM's Data Science Experience:

default:
    method: "shell"

CS-DSX:
    method: "bluemix"
    spark.master: "spark.bluemix.net"
    spark.instance.id: "myinstanceid"
    tenant.id: "mytenantid"
    tenant.secret: "mytenantsecret"
    hsui.url: "https://cdsx.ng.bluemix.net"

I am attempting to connect like so:

install.packages("sparklyr")

library(sparklyr)
spark_install(version = "1.6.2") # installed spark to '~/Library/Caches/spark/spark-1.6.2-bin-hadoop2.6'

spark_home = '~/Library/Caches/spark/spark-1.6.2-bin-hadoop2.6'

config = spark_config(file = "./config.yml", use_default = FALSE, config = "CSX-DSX")

sc <- spark_connect(spark_home = spark_home, config = config)

The error:

17/03/07 09:36:19 ERROR SparkContext: Error initializing SparkContext.
org.apache.spark.SparkException: Could not parse Master URL: 'spark.bluemix.net'
    at org.apache.spark.SparkContext$.org$apache$spark$SparkContext$$createTaskScheduler(SparkContext.scala:2735)
    at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.<init>(SparkContext.scala:522)
    at org.apache.spark.SparkContext$.getOrCreate(SparkContext.scala:2281)
    at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.getOrCreate(SparkContext.scala)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    ...

There are a few other questions on stackoverflow with similar error messages, but they are not trying to connect to the Spark service running on Bluemix.

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Update 1

I've changed my config.yml to look like this:

default:
    method: "bluemix"
    spark.master: "spark://spark.bluemix.net:7070"
    spark.instance.id: "7a4089bf-3594-4fdf-8dd1-7e9fd7607be5"
    tenant.id: "sdd1-7e9fd7607be53e-39ca506ba762"
    tenant.secret: "6146a713-949f-4d4e-84c3-9913d2165b9e"
    hsui.url: "https://cdsx.ng.bluemix.net"

... and my connection code to look like this:

install.packages("sparklyr")
library(sparklyr)
spark_install(version = "1.6.2")
spark_home = '~/Library/Caches/spark/spark-1.6.2-bin-hadoop2.6'
config = spark_config(file = "./config.yml", use_default = FALSE)
sc <- spark_connect(spark_home = spark_home, config = config)

However, the error is now:

Error in force(code) : 
  Failed during initialize_connection: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.<init>(SparkContext.scala:583)
    at org.apache.spark.SparkContext$.getOrCreate(SparkContext.scala:2281)
    at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.getOrCreate(SparkContext.scala)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
    at sparklyr.Invoke$.invoke(invoke.scala:94)
    ...

Answer 1

I received the following response from the engineering team:

RStudio desktop version doesn't support at this time to use sparklyr package to connect Bluemix SparkaaS service