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sparklyr (version 1.8.5)

sdf_schema: Read the Schema of a Spark DataFrame

Description

Read the schema of a Spark DataFrame.

Usage

sdf_schema(x, expand_nested_cols = FALSE, expand_struct_cols = FALSE)

Value

An R

list, with each list element describing the

name and type of a column.

Arguments

x

A spark_connection, ml_pipeline, or a tbl_spark.

expand_nested_cols

Whether to expand columns containing nested array of structs (which are usually created by tidyr::nest on a Spark data frame)

expand_struct_cols

Whether to expand columns containing structs

Details

The type column returned gives the string representation of the underlying Spark type for that column; for example, a vector of numeric values would be returned with the type "DoubleType". Please see the Spark Scala API Documentation for information on what types are available and exposed by Spark.