How to eval spark.ml model without DataFrames/SparkContext?

Question

With Spark MLLib, I\'d build a model (like RandomForest), and then it was possible to eval it outside of Spark by loading the model and using predict o

Answer 1

Re: Is there any way to build a DataFrame outside of Spark?

It is not possible. DataFrames live inside SQLContext with it living in SparkContext. Perhaps you could work it around somehow, but the whole story is that the connection between DataFrames and SparkContext is by design.