honeycomb is a dplyr backend for Hive. honeycomb developed out of dplyr.spark.hive, which served as the launching point from which honeycomb was built.

honeycomb is focused only on Hive, and it was adapted for compatibility with dplyr v0.5.

honeycomb requires dplyr v0.5.0. The easiest way to verify that the correct set of dependencies are installed is to use a fixed snapshot of MRAN (Microsoft) snapshot of CRAN. Add the following lines to your Rprofile.site and Renviron.site files. If you have a fresh installation of R you will need to create the files.

Adjust the environment variables added to the Renviron.site as needed for your distribution of hadoop.

$R_HOME/etc/Rprofile.site

options(repos=structure(c(CRAN='https://mran.revolutionanalytics.com/snapshot/2017-04-01/')))

$R_HOME/etc/Renviron.site

HADOOP_CMD=/usr/bin/hadoop
USE_KERBEROS=0
HIVE_SERVER_HOST=localhost
HIVE_SERVER_PORT=10000
HIVE_JAR_FOLDERS=/usr/lib/hive/lib

Now install the honeycomb package using the devtools library within R.

devtools::install_github('ZurichPA/rhdfs', subdir='pkg')
devtools::install_github('ZurichPA/orpheus')
devtools::install_github('ZurichPA/honeycomb')