Running Apache Spark Example Application in IntelliJ Idea

I am trying to run the SparkPi.scala example program in Netbeans. Unfortunately I am quite new to Spark and have not been able to execute it successfully.

My preference is to work in Netbeans only and execute from there. I know spark also allows executing from the spark console - I however prefer not to take that approach.

This is my build.sbt file contents:

name := "SBTScalaSparkPi"

version := "1.0"

scalaVersion := "2.10.6"

libraryDependencies += "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-core" % "1.6.1"

This is my plugins.sbt file contents:

logLevel := Level.Warn

This is the program I am trying to execute:

import scala.math.random

import org.apache.spark.SparkContext
import org.apache.spark.SparkConf

/** Computes an approximation to pi */
object SparkPi {
  def main(args: Array[String]) {
    val conf = new SparkConf().setAppName("Spark Pi")
    val spark = new SparkContext(conf)
    val slices = if (args.length > 0) args(0).toInt else 2
    val n = math.min(100000L * slices, Int.MaxValue).toInt // avoid overflow
    val count = spark.parallelize(1 until n, slices).map { i =>
        val x = random * 2 - 1
        val y = random * 2 - 1
        if (x*x + y*y < 1) 1 else 0
      }.reduce(_ + _)
    println("Pi is roughly " + 4.0 * count / n)
    spark.stop()
  }
}

JDK version: 1.8.

The error I get when trying to execute the code is given below:

Using Spark's default log4j profile: org/apache/spark/log4j-defaults.properties
16/03/25 07:50:25 INFO SparkContext: Running Spark version 1.6.1
16/03/25 07:50:26 WARN NativeCodeLoader: Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable
16/03/25 07:50:26 ERROR SparkContext: Error initializing SparkContext.
org.apache.spark.SparkException: A master URL must be set in your configuration
at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.<init>(SparkContext.scala:401)
at SparkPi.main(SparkPi.scala)
16/03/25 07:50:26 INFO SparkContext: Successfully stopped SparkContext
Exception in thread "main" org.apache.spark.SparkException: A master URL must be set in your configuration
at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.<init>
at SparkPi$.main(SparkPi.scala:28)
at SparkPi.main(SparkPi.scala)
Process finished with exit code 1

Thanks in advance for any help.