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 #### Using SparkR from RStudio
 
-If you wish to use SparkR from RStudio or other R frontends you will need to set some environment variables which point SparkR to your Spark installation. For example
-```R
-# Set this to where Spark is installed
-Sys.setenv(SPARK_HOME="/Users/username/spark")
-# This line loads SparkR from the installed directory
-.libPaths(c(file.path(Sys.getenv("SPARK_HOME"), "R", "lib"), .libPaths()))
-library(SparkR)
-sparkR.session()
-```
+If you wish to use SparkR from RStudio, please refer [SparkR documentation](https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sparkr.html#starting-up-from-rstudio).
 
 #### Making changes to SparkR