Hi Brent,
I am running into similar errors when trying to connect R to HIVE via RJDBC. The error I am getting is this:
drv <- JDBC(“org.apache.hive.jdbc.HiveDriver”, “/usr/lib/hive/lib/hive-jdbc.jar”)
conn <- dbConnect(drv, “jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000/default”, “hue”, “1111″)
Error in .jcall(drv@jdrv, “Ljava/sql/Connection;”, “connect”, as.character(url)[1], :
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.apache.hive.service.auth.HiveAuthFactory
I have set my class path via the jclasspath(). This includes all of the jars in the /usr/lib/hive/lib and /usr/lib/hadoop. But it seems even with these jars., I am still missing something. Can you share what additional jars did you include and how are you setting you class path to solve your problem??
