R: Create an external table

createExternalTable {SparkR}

R Documentation

Create an external table

Description

Creates an external table based on the dataset in a data source, Returns a SparkDataFrame associated with the external table.

Usage

## Default S3 method:
createExternalTable(tableName, path = NULL, source = NULL,
  ...)

Arguments

`tableName`	a name of the table.
`path`	the path of files to load.
`source`	the name of external data source.
`...`	additional argument(s) passed to the method.

Details

The data source is specified by the source and a set of options(...). If source is not specified, the default data source configured by "spark.sql.sources.default" will be used.

Value

A SparkDataFrame.

Note

createExternalTable since 1.4.0

Examples

## Not run: 
##D sparkR.session()
##D df <- createExternalTable("myjson", path="path/to/json", source="json")
## End(Not run)

[Package SparkR version 2.1.1 Index]