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[SPARK-7264][ML] Parallel lapply for sparkR
## What changes were proposed in this pull request? This PR adds a new function in SparkR called `sparkLapply(list, function)`. This function implements a distributed version of `lapply` using Spark as a backend. TODO: - [x] check documentation - [ ] check tests Trivial example in SparkR: ```R sparkLapply(1:5, function(x) { 2 * x }) ``` Output: ``` [[1]] [1] 2 [[2]] [1] 4 [[3]] [1] 6 [[4]] [1] 8 [[5]] [1] 10 ``` Here is a slightly more complex example to perform distributed training of multiple models. Under the hood, Spark broadcasts the dataset. ```R library("MASS") data(menarche) families <- c("gaussian", "poisson") train <- function(family){glm(Menarche ~ Age , family=family, data=menarche)} results <- sparkLapply(families, train) ``` ## How was this patch tested? This PR was tested in SparkR. I am unfamiliar with R and SparkR, so any feedback on style, testing, etc. will be much appreciated. cc falaki davies Author: Timothy Hunter <timhunter@databricks.com> Closes #12426 from thunterdb/7264.
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