Introduction The R programming language, along with RStudio, has become one of the most popular tools for data analysis as it contains a large amount of open-source packages developed by a community of statisticians. However, R or RStudio is not ideal for Big Data analysis as mostly the data would not fit into R memory. On the other hand, Spark has become the leading platform for big-data analytics. It works with the system to distribute data across clusters and process data in parallel.