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+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+# For this example, we shall use the "flights" dataset
+# The dataset consists of every flight departing Houston in 2011.
+# The data set is made up of 227,496 rows x 14 columns. 
+
+# Load SparkR library into your R session
+library(SparkR)
+
+args <- commandArgs(trailing = TRUE)
+
+## Initialize SparkContext
+sc <- sparkR.init(appName = "SparkR-data-manipulation-example")
+
+## Initialize SQLContext
+sqlContext <- sparkRSQL.init(sc)
+
+if (length(args) != 1) {
+  print("Usage: data-manipulation.R <path-to-flights.csv")
+  print("The data can be downloaded from: http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/sparkr-data/flights.csv ")
+  q("no")
+}
+
+flightsCsvPath <- args[[1]]
+
+
+# Create a local R dataframe
+flights_df <- read.csv(flightsCsvPath, header = TRUE)
+flights_df$date <- as.Date(flights_df$date)
+
+## Filter flights whose destination is San Francisco and write to a local data frame
+SFO_df <- flights_df[flights_df$dest == "SFO", ] 
+
+# Convert the local data frame into a SparkR DataFrame
+SFO_DF <- createDataFrame(sqlContext, SFO_df)
+
+#  Directly create a SparkR DataFrame from the source data
+flightsDF <- read.df(sqlContext, flightsCsvPath, source = "csv", header = "true")
+
+# Print the schema of this Spark DataFrame
+printSchema(flightsDF)
+
+# Cache the DataFrame
+cache(flightsDF)
+
+# Print the first 6 rows of the DataFrame
+showDF(flightsDF, numRows = 6) ## Or
+head(flightsDF)
+
+# Show the column names in the DataFrame
+columns(flightsDF)
+
+# Show the number of rows in the DataFrame
+count(flightsDF)
+
+# Show summary statistics for numeric colums
+describe(flightsDF)
+
+# Select specific columns
+destDF <- select(flightsDF, "dest", "cancelled")
+
+# Using SQL to select columns of data
+# First, register the flights DataFrame as a table
+registerTempTable(flightsDF, "flightsTable")
+destDF <- sql(sqlContext, "SELECT dest, cancelled FROM flightsTable")
+
+# Use collect to create a local R data frame
+local_df <- collect(destDF)
+
+# Print the newly created local data frame
+print(local_df)
+
+# Filter flights whose destination is JFK
+jfkDF <- filter(flightsDF, "dest == JFK") ##OR
+jfkDF <- filter(flightsDF, flightsDF$dest == "JFK")
+
+# Install the magrittr library
+if("magrittr" %in% rownames(installed.packages())) { library(magrittr) }
+
+# Group the flights by date and then find the average daily delay
+# Write the result into a DataFrame
+groupBy(flightsDF, "date") %>%
+  avg(dep_delay = "avg", arr_delay = "avg") -> dailyDelayDF
+
+# Stop the SparkContext now
+sparkR.stop()