Local Solr setup

OSX

1. Download most recent version from an Apache mirror https://solr.apache.org/
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.

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://solr.apache.org/guide/8_2/post-tool.html#PostTool-Windows for an equivalent.

solrium usage

First, setup a connection object

library(solrium)
(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] "{\n  \"responseHeader\":{\n    \"status\":0,\n    \"QTime\":5,\n    \"params\":{\n      \"q\":\"*:*\",\n      \"rows\":\"3\",\n      \"wt\":\"json\"}},\n  \"response\":{\"numFound\":48,\"start\":0,\"docs\":[\n      {\n        \"id\":\"TWINX2048-3200PRO\",\n        \"name\":[\"CORSAIR  XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit System Memory - Retail\"],\n        \"manu\":[\"Corsair Microsystems Inc.\"],\n        \"manu_id_s\":\"corsair\",\n        \"cat\":[\"electronics\",\n          \"memory\"],\n        \"features\":[\"CAS latency 2,  2-3-3-6 timing, 2.75v, unbuffered, heat-spreader\"],\n        \"price\":[185.0],\n        \"popularity\":[5],\n        \"inStock\":[true],\n        \"store\":[\"37.7752,-122.4232\"],\n        \"manufacturedate_dt\":\"2006-02-13T15:26:37Z\",\n        \"payloads\":[\"electronics|6.0 memory|3.0\"],\n        \"_version_\":1664688417970061312},\n      {\n        \"id\":\"VS1GB400C3\",\n        \"name\":[\"CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) System Memory - Retail\"],\n        \"manu\":[\"Corsair Microsystems Inc.\"],\n        \"manu_id_s\":\"corsair\",\n        \"cat\":[\"electronics\",\n          \"memory\"],\n        \"price\":[74.99],\n        \"popularity\":[7],\n        \"inStock\":[true],\n        \"store\":[\"37.7752,-100.0232\"],\n        \"manufacturedate_dt\":\"2006-02-13T15:26:37Z\",\n        \"payloads\":[\"electronics|4.0 memory|2.0\"],\n        \"_version_\":1664688418109521920},\n      {\n        \"id\":\"VDBDB1A16\",\n        \"name\":[\"A-DATA V-Series 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) System Memory - OEM\"],\n        \"manu\":[\"A-DATA Technology Inc.\"],\n        \"manu_id_s\":\"corsair\",\n        \"cat\":[\"electronics\",\n          \"memory\"],\n        \"features\":[\"CAS latency 3,   2.7v\"],\n        \"popularity\":[0],\n        \"inStock\":[true],\n        \"store\":[\"45.18414,-93.88141\"],\n        \"manufacturedate_dt\":\"2006-02-13T15:26:37Z\",\n        \"payloads\":[\"electronics|0.9 memory|0.1\"],\n        \"_version_\":1664688418113716224}]\n  }}\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('id', 'address_s')))

## # A tibble: 10 x 2
##    id                address_s                                                 
##    <chr>             <chr>                                                     
##  1 TWINX2048-3200PRO <NA>                                                      
##  2 VS1GB400C3        <NA>                                                      
##  3 VDBDB1A16         <NA>                                                      
##  4 SOLR1000          <NA>                                                      
##  5 adata             46221 Landing Parkway Fremont, CA 94538                   
##  6 apple             1 Infinite Way, Cupertino CA                              
##  7 asus              800 Corporate Way Fremont, CA 94539                       
##  8 ati               33 Commerce Valley Drive East Thornhill, ON L3T 7N6 Canada
##  9 belkin            12045 E. Waterfront Drive Playa Vista, CA 90094           
## 10 canon             One Canon Plaza Lake Success, NY 11042

Other Vignettes

See the other vignettes for more thorough examples:

• Document management
• Cores/collections management
• Solr Search