head {SparkR}R Documentation

Head

Description

Return the first num rows of a SparkDataFrame as a R data.frame. If num is not specified, then head() returns the first 6 rows as with R data.frame.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'SparkDataFrame'
head(x, num = 6L)

Arguments

x

a SparkDataFrame.

num

the number of rows to return. Default is 6.

Value

A data.frame.

Note

head since 1.4.0

See Also

Other SparkDataFrame functions: SparkDataFrame-class, agg, alias, arrange, as.data.frame, attach,SparkDataFrame-method, broadcast, cache, checkpoint, coalesce, collect, colnames, coltypes, createOrReplaceTempView, crossJoin, cube, dapplyCollect, dapply, describe, dim, distinct, dropDuplicates, dropna, drop, dtypes, except, explain, filter, first, gapplyCollect, gapply, getNumPartitions, group_by, hint, histogram, insertInto, intersect, isLocal, isStreaming, join, limit, localCheckpoint, merge, mutate, ncol, nrow, persist, printSchema, randomSplit, rbind, registerTempTable, rename, repartition, rollup, sample, saveAsTable, schema, selectExpr, select, showDF, show, storageLevel, str, subset, summary, take, toJSON, unionByName, union, unpersist, withColumn, withWatermark, with, write.df, write.jdbc, write.json, write.orc, write.parquet, write.stream, write.text

Examples

## Not run: 
##D sparkR.session()
##D path <- "path/to/file.json"
##D df <- read.json(path)
##D head(df)
## End(Not run)

[Package SparkR version 2.3.0 Index]