selectExpr {SparkR}R Documentation

SelectExpr

Description

Select from a SparkDataFrame using a set of SQL expressions.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'SparkDataFrame,character'
selectExpr(x, expr, ...)

Arguments

x

A SparkDataFrame to be selected from.

expr

A string containing a SQL expression

...

Additional expressions

Value

A SparkDataFrame

See Also

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, rename, repartition, sample, saveAsTable, 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 selectExpr(df, "col1", "(col2 * 5) as newCol")
## End(Not run)

[Package SparkR version 2.0.0 Index]