This document provides an introduction to using RHadoop to interface R with Hadoop. It recommends downloading a Cloudera VM with CentOS, CDH5.3, R 3.x, and Java 1.7 installed. It then recommends downloading RHadoop packages and installing rhdfs, rhbase, rmr2, and plyrmr packages in R. It provides guidance on getting started with RHadoop, including ensuring required packages are installed, enabling HDFS, and potentially configuring the JAVA_HOME environment variable. It also provides pointers for debugging RHadoop programs when run with different Hadoop backends and modes.