collect {SparkR}R Documentation

Collects all the elements of a SparkDataFrame and coerces them into an R data.frame.

Description

Collects all the elements of a SparkDataFrame and coerces them into an R data.frame.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'SparkDataFrame'
collect(x, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

Arguments

x

A SparkDataFrame

stringsAsFactors

(Optional) A logical indicating whether or not string columns should be converted to factors. FALSE by default.

See Also

Other SparkDataFrame functions: SparkDataFrame-class, [[, agg, arrange, as.data.frame, attach, cache, colnames, coltypes, columns, count, dapply, describe, dim, distinct, dropDuplicates, dropna, drop, dtypes, except, explain, filter, first, group_by, head, histogram, insertInto, intersect, isLocal, join, limit, merge, mutate, ncol, persist, printSchema, registerTempTable, rename, repartition, sample, saveAsTable, selectExpr, select, showDF, show, str, take, unionAll, unpersist, withColumn, write.df, write.jdbc, write.json, write.parquet, write.text

Examples

## Not run: 
##D sc <- sparkR.init()
##D sqlContext <- sparkRSQL.init(sc)
##D path <- "path/to/file.json"
##D df <- read.json(sqlContext, path)
##D collected <- collect(df)
##D firstName <- collected[[1]]$name
## End(Not run)

[Package SparkR version 2.0.0 Index]