How to do it...

  1. Start a new project in IntelliJ or in an IDE of your choice. Make sure that the necessary JAR files are included.
  2. Import the necessary packages for vector and matrix manipulation:
 import org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg.distributed.RowMatrix import org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg.distributed.{IndexedRow, IndexedRowMatrix} import org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg.distributed.{CoordinateMatrix, MatrixEntry} import org.apache.spark.sql.{SparkSession} import org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg._ import breeze.linalg.{DenseVector => BreezeVector} import Array._ import org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg.DenseMatrix import org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg.SparseVector
  1. Set up the Spark session and application parameters so Spark can run:
val spark ...

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