rename {SparkR}R Documentation

rename

Description

Rename an existing column in a SparkDataFrame.

Usage

rename(x, ...)

withColumnRenamed(x, existingCol, newCol)

## S4 method for signature 'SparkDataFrame,character,character'
withColumnRenamed(x, existingCol,
  newCol)

## S4 method for signature 'SparkDataFrame'
rename(x, ...)

Arguments

x

A SparkDataFrame

existingCol

The name of the column you want to change.

newCol

The new column name.

newColPair

A named pair of the form new_column_name = existing_column

Value

A SparkDataFrame with the column name changed.

See Also

mutate

Other SparkDataFrame functions: SparkDataFrame-class, [[, agg, arrange, as.data.frame, attach, cache, collect, 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, 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 newDF <- withColumnRenamed(df, "col1", "newCol1")
## End(Not run)
## Not run: 
##D sc <- sparkR.init()
##D sqlContext <- sparkRSQL.init(sc)
##D path <- "path/to/file.json"
##D df <- read.json(sqlContext, path)
##D newDF <- rename(df, col1 = df$newCol1)
## End(Not run)

[Package SparkR version 2.0.0 Index]