Local Solr setup

The Solr version you are working with my differ from below. Don't worry, just go with the version you want to use.

OSX

Based on http://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/7_0/solr-tutorial.html

  1. Download most recent version from an Apache mirror https://lucene.apache.org/solr/
  2. Unzip/untar the file. Move to your desired location. Now you have Solr v.7.0.0
  3. Go into the directory you just created: cd solr-7.0.0
  4. Launch Solr: bin/solr start -e cloud -noprompt - Sets up SolrCloud mode, rather than Standalone mode. As far as I can tell, SolrCloud mode seems more common.
  5. Once Step 4 completes, you can go to http://localhost:8983/solr/ now, which is the admin interface for Solr.
  6. Load some documents: bin/post -c gettingstarted docs/
  7. Once Step 6 is complete (will take a few minutes), navigate in your browser to http://localhost:8983/solr/gettingstarted/select?q=*:*&wt=json and you should see a bunch of documents

Linux

You should be able to use the above instructions for OSX on a Linux machine.

Linuxbrew

Linuxbrew is a port of Mac OS homebrew to linux. Operation is essentially the same as for homebrew. Follow the installation instructions for linuxbrew and then the instructions for using homebrew (above) should work without modification.

Windows

You should be able to use the above instructions for OSX on a Windows machine, but with some slight differences. For example, the bin/post tool for OSX and Linux doesn't work on Windows, but see https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Post+Tool#PostTool-Windows for an equivalent.

solrium usage

First, setup a connection object

(conn <- SolrClient$new())

## <Solr Client>
##   host: 127.0.0.1
##   path: 
##   port: 8983
##   scheme: http
##   errors: simple
##   proxy:

And we can now use the solrium R package to query the Solr database to get raw JSON data:

conn$search("gettingstarted", params = list(q = '*:*', rows = 3), raw = TRUE)
#> [1] "{\"responseHeader\":{\"status\":0,\"QTime\":8,\"params\":{\"q\":\"*:*\",\"rows\":\"3\",\"wt\":\"json\"}},\"response\":{\"numFound\":3577,\"start\":0,\"maxScore\":1.0,\"docs\":[{\"id\":\"/Users/sacmac/solr-5.2.1/docs/solr-core/org/apache/solr/highlight/class-use/SolrFragmenter.html\",\"stream_size\":[9016],\"date\":[\"2015-06-10T00:00:00Z\"],\"x_parsed_by\":[\"org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser\",\"org.apache.tika.parser.html.HtmlParser\"],\"stream_content_type\":[\"text/html\"],\"dc_title\":[\"Uses of Interface org.apache.solr.highlight.SolrFragmenter (Solr 5.2.1 API)\"],\"content_encoding\":[\"UTF-8\"],\"resourcename\":[\"/Users/sacmac/solr-5.2.1/docs/solr-core/org/apache/solr/highlight/class-use/SolrFragmenter.html\"],\"title\":[\"Uses of Interface org.apache.solr.highlight.SolrFragmenter (Solr 5.2.1 API)\"],\"content_type\":[\"text/html\"],\"_version_\":1507965023127863296},{\"id\":\"/Users/sacmac/solr-5.2.1/docs/solr-core/org/apache/solr/highlight/class-use/SolrFragmentsBuilder.html\",\"stream_size\":[10336],\"date\":[\"2015-06-10T00:00:00Z\"],\"x_parsed_by\":[\"org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser\",\"org.apache.tika.parser.html.HtmlParser\"],\"stream_content_type\":[\"text/html\"],\"dc_title\":[\"Uses of Class org.apache.solr.highlight.SolrFragmentsBuilder (Solr 5.2.1 API)\"],\"content_encoding\":[\"UTF-8\"],\"resourcename\":[\"/Users/sacmac/solr-5.2.1/docs/solr-core/org/apache/solr/highlight/class-use/SolrFragmentsBuilder.html\"],\"title\":[\"Uses of Class org.apache.solr.highlight.SolrFragmentsBuilder (Solr 5.2.1 API)\"],\"content_type\":[\"text/html\"],\"_version_\":1507965023153029120},{\"id\":\"/Users/sacmac/solr-5.2.1/docs/solr-core/org/apache/solr/internal/csv/CSVParser.html\",\"stream_size\":[32427],\"date\":[\"2015-06-10T00:00:00Z\"],\"x_parsed_by\":[\"org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser\",\"org.apache.tika.parser.html.HtmlParser\"],\"stream_content_type\":[\"text/html\"],\"dc_title\":[\"CSVParser (Solr 5.2.1 API)\"],\"content_encoding\":[\"UTF-8\"],\"resourcename\":[\"/Users/sacmac/solr-5.2.1/docs/solr-core/org/apache/solr/internal/csv/CSVParser.html\"],\"title\":[\"CSVParser (Solr 5.2.1 API)\"],\"content_type\":[\"text/html\"],\"_version_\":1507965023221186560}]}}\n"
#> attr(,"class")
#> [1] "sr_search"
#> attr(,"wt")
#> [1] "json"

Or parsed data to a data.frame (just looking at a few columns for brevity):

conn$search("gettingstarted", params = list(q = '*:*', fl = c('date', 'title')))
#> Source: local data frame [10 x 2]
#>
#>                    date                                                                         title
#> 1  2015-06-10T00:00:00Z   Uses of Interface org.apache.solr.highlight.SolrFragmenter (Solr 5.2.1 API)
#> 2  2015-06-10T00:00:00Z Uses of Class org.apache.solr.highlight.SolrFragmentsBuilder (Solr 5.2.1 API)
#> 3  2015-06-10T00:00:00Z                                                    CSVParser (Solr 5.2.1 API)
#> 4  2015-06-10T00:00:00Z                                                     CSVUtils (Solr 5.2.1 API)
#> 5  2015-06-10T00:00:00Z                                 org.apache.solr.internal.csv (Solr 5.2.1 API)
#> 6  2015-06-10T00:00:00Z                 org.apache.solr.internal.csv Class Hierarchy (Solr 5.2.1 API)
#> 7  2015-06-10T00:00:00Z       Uses of Class org.apache.solr.internal.csv.CSVStrategy (Solr 5.2.1 API)
#> 8  2015-06-10T00:00:00Z          Uses of Class org.apache.solr.internal.csv.CSVUtils (Solr 5.2.1 API)
#> 9  2015-06-10T00:00:00Z                                                    CSVConfig (Solr 5.2.1 API)
#> 10 2015-06-10T00:00:00Z                                             CSVConfigGuesser (Solr 5.2.1 API)

Other Vignettes

See the other vignettes for more thorough examples: