title: Sparklyr connection error: Error in spark_connect_gateway(gatewayAddress, gatewayPort, sessionId, : Gateway in localhost:8880 did not respond
body: <p>I am having the following issue while connecting to sparkyr.</p>
  <pre><code>sc &lt;- spark_connect(master = &quot;local&quot;)
  * Using Spark: 2.4.3
  Error in spark_connect_gateway(gatewayAddress, gatewayPort, sessionId,  : 
    Gateway in localhost:8880 did not respond.
  
  
  Try running `options(sparklyr.log.console = TRUE)` followed by `sc &lt;- spark_connect(...)` for more debugging info.
  </code></pre>
  <p>Some info:</p>
  <pre><code>spark_installed_versions()
    spark hadoop
  1 2.4.3    2.7
                                                                 dir
  1 C:\\Users\\88015\\AppData\\Local/spark/spark-2.4.3-bin-hadoop2.7
  </code></pre>
  <p>I tried out many suggestions from google but I could not fix this issue. Can anyone help, please?</p>