How to build logistic regression model in SparkR - r

Question

I am new to Spark as well as SparkR. I have successfully installed Spark and SparkR.
When I tried to build Logistic regression model with R and Spark over csv file stored in HDFS, I got the error "incorrect number of dimensions".
My Code is :
points <- cache(lapplyPartition(textFile(sc, "hdfs://localhost:54310/Henry/data.csv"), readPartition))
collect(points)
w <- runif(n=D, min = -1, max = 1)
cat("Initial w: ", w, "\n")
# Compute logistic regression gradient for a matrix of data points
gradient <- function(partition) {
partition = partition[[1]]
Y <- partition[, 1] # point labels (first column of input file)
X <- partition[, -1] # point coordinates
# For each point (x, y), compute gradient function
dot <- X %*% w
logit <- 1 / (1 + exp(-Y * dot))
grad <- t(X) %*% ((logit - 1) * Y)
list(grad)
}
for (i in 1:iterations) {
cat("On iteration ", i, "\n")
w <- w - reduce(lapplyPartition(points, gradient), "+")
}
Error Message is:
On iteration 1
Error in partition[, 1] : incorrect number of dimensions
Calls: do.call ... func -> FUN -> FUN -> Reduce -> <Anonymous> -> FUN -> FUN
Execution halted
14/09/27 01:38:13 ERROR Executor: Exception in task 0.0 in stage 181.0 (TID 189)
java.lang.NullPointerException
at edu.berkeley.cs.amplab.sparkr.RRDD.compute(RRDD.scala:125)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.computeOrReadCheckpoint(RDD.scala:262)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.iterator(RDD.scala:229)
at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ResultTask.runTask(ResultTask.scala:62)
at org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:54)
at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:177)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1146)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:701)
14/09/27 01:38:13 WARN TaskSetManager: Lost task 0.0 in stage 181.0 (TID 189, localhost): java.lang.NullPointerException:
edu.berkeley.cs.amplab.sparkr.RRDD.compute(RRDD.scala:125)
org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.computeOrReadCheckpoint(RDD.scala:262)
org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.iterator(RDD.scala:229)
org.apache.spark.scheduler.ResultTask.runTask(ResultTask.scala:62)
org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:54)
org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:177)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1146)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:701)
14/09/27 01:38:13 ERROR TaskSetManager: Task 0 in stage 181.0 failed 1 times; aborting job
Error in .jcall(getJRDD(rdd), "Ljava/util/List;", "collect") : org.apache.spark.SparkException: Job aborted due to stage failure: Task 0 in stage 181.0 failed 1 times, most recent failure: Lost task 0.0 in stage 181.0 (TID 189, localhost): java.lang.NullPointerException: edu.berkeley.cs.amplab.sparkr.RRDD.compute(RRDD.scala:125) org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.computeOrReadCheckpoint(RDD.scala:262) org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.iterator(RDD.scala:229) org.apache.spark.scheduler.ResultTask.runTask(ResultTask.scala:62) org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:54) org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:177) java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1146) java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:701) Driver stacktrace:
Dimension of data (sample) :
data <- read.csv("/home/Henry/data.csv")
dim(data)
[1] 17 541
What could be the possible reason for this error?

Answer 1

The problem is that textFile() reads some text data and return a distributed collection of strings, each of which corresponds to a line of the text file. Therefore later in the program partition[, -1] fails. The program's real intent seems to be treating points as a distributed collection of data frames. We are working on providing data frame support in SparkR soon (SPARKR-1).
To resolve the issue, simply manipulate your partition using string operations to extract X, Y correctly. Some other ways include (I think you've probably seen this before) producing a different type of distributed collection from the beginning as is done here: examples/logistic_regression.R.