Using PySpark in a Quarto Notebook

[jodreyjt]

Hi, I'm fairly new to Quarto and new to setting up Spark/PySpark on my personal MacBook.

How can I get PySpark set up on a personal MacBook so I can run PySpark code to create how-to guides in Quarto? And then how do I run PySpark code without getting an error like a Byte/Bit error (sorry I can't remember the exact error from when I last tried this)?
Ideally, I'd like to make a .qmd file with R, Spark R, Python, PySpark, and SQL code (all of which I've figured out except the PySpark piece).

Thanks!

[mcanouil]

Your question has in fact little to do with Quarto.
Quarto will either use R/knitr to run code (Python code via reticulate) or Python/Jupyter to run code (R code via rpy2 for example).

Also Quarto can render Jupyter notebooks directly, thus I suggest you follow one of many online resources describing how to set up PySpark, for example in Jupyter, see https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pyspark+jupyter+macos.

Then you can follow the appropriate Quarto guide according to which engine you want to use as primary: R/knitr or Python/Jupyter