After reading documents and tutorials on MapReduce and Hadoop and playing with RHadoop for about 2 weeks, finally I have built my first R Hadoop system and successfully run some R examples on it. My experience and steps to achieve that are presented at http://www.rdatamining.com/tutorials/rhadoop. Hopefully it will make it easier to try RHadoop for R users who are new to Hadoop. Note that I tried this on Mac only and some steps might be different for Windows.
1. Install Hadoop
2. Run Hadoop
3. Install R
4. Install RHadoop
5. Run R jobs on Hadoop
6. What’s Next
Not yet test, but in the next 2/3 weeks I will!
YouTube Wordcount MapReduce in R
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSrW0Iwghtw