dropDuplicates — dropDuplicates • SparkR

Returns a new SparkDataFrame with duplicate rows removed, considering only the subset of columns.

Usage

dropDuplicates(x, ...)

# S4 method for SparkDataFrame
dropDuplicates(x, ...)

Arguments

x: A SparkDataFrame.
...: A character vector of column names or string column names. If the first argument contains a character vector, the followings are ignored.

Value

A SparkDataFrame with duplicate rows removed.

Note

dropDuplicates since 2.0.0

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(), dropna(), drop(), dtypes(), exceptAll(), except(), explain(), filter(), first(), gapplyCollect(), gapply(), getNumPartitions(), group_by(), head(), hint(), histogram(), insertInto(), intersectAll(), intersect(), isLocal(), isStreaming(), join(), limit(), localCheckpoint(), merge(), mutate(), ncol(), nrow(), persist(), printSchema(), randomSplit(), rbind(), rename(), repartitionByRange(), repartition(), rollup(), sample(), saveAsTable(), schema(), selectExpr(), select(), showDF(), show(), storageLevel(), str(), subset(), summary(), take(), toJSON(), unionAll(), unionByName(), union(), unpersist(), unpivot(), withColumn(), withWatermark(), with(), write.df(), write.jdbc(), write.json(), write.orc(), write.parquet(), write.stream(), write.text()

Examples

if (FALSE) {
sparkR.session()
path <- "path/to/file.json"
df <- read.json(path)
dropDuplicates(df)
dropDuplicates(df, "col1", "col2")
dropDuplicates(df, c("col1", "col2"))
}