SparkR (version 2.1.2)

cast: Casts the column to a different data type.

Description

Casts the column to a different data type.

Usage

cast(x, dataType)
# S4 method for Column
cast(x, dataType)

Arguments

x

a Column.

dataType

a character object describing the target data type. See Spark Data Types for available data types.

See Also

Other colum_func: alias, between, endsWith, otherwise, over, startsWith, substr

Examples

# NOT RUN {
  cast(df$age, "string")
# }