IntelliJ Idea 14: cannot resolve symbol spark

Question

I made a dependency of Spark which worked in my first project. But when I try to make a new project with Spark, my SBT does not import the external jars of org.apache.spark. The

Answer 1

I had a similar problem. It seems the reason was that the build.sbt file was specifying the wrong version of scala.

If you run spark-shell it'll say at some point the scala version used by Spark, e.g.

Using Scala version 2.11.8

Then I edited the line in the build.sbt file to point to that version and it worked.