This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.rstudio.com/blog/sparklyr-1-3
sparklyr 1.3 is now available on CRAN, with the following major new features:
Higher-order Functions to easily manipulate arrays and structs Support for Apache Avro, a row-oriented data serialization framework Custom Serialization using R functions to read and write any data format Other Improvements such as compatibility with EMR 6.0 & Spark 3.0, and initial support for Flint time series library To install sparklyr 1.3 from CRAN, run