Adding sparknlp package prevents connection to local cluster on windows

[Kvit]

Successfull Connection Call
C:\Spark\spark-3.0.1-bin-hadoop2.7\bin\spark-submit2.cmd --name sparklyr --driver-memory 2g --class sparklyr.Shell "C:\Users\SIT\Documents\R\win-library\4.0\sparklyr\java\sparklyr-3.0-2.12.jar" 8880 29906

Failure to connect
C:\Spark\spark-3.0.1-bin-hadoop2.7\bin\spark-submit2.cmd --driver-memory 8g --name sparklyr --class sparklyr.Shell --jars "" --packages "com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp_2.11:2.6.3" "C:\Users\SIT\Documents\R\win-library\4.0\sparklyr\java\sparklyr-3.0-2.12.jar" 8880 91558

Error in spark_connect_gateway(gatewayAddress, gatewayPort, sessionId,  : 
  Gateway in localhost:8880 did not respond.

In normalizePath(path.expand(path), winslash, mustWork) :
path[1]="": The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect

[Kvit]

My guess is that problem with empty --jars ""

[Kvit]

looks like Spark no logner recognizes JRE location defined by env. variable JAVA_HOME

[dkincaid]

Spark NLP doesn't support Spark 3.0 yet. Can you try it with Spark 2.4.x and let me know if you have the same problem?