SparkR (version 2.1.2)

createExternalTable: Create an external table

Description

Creates an external table based on the dataset in a data source, Returns a SparkDataFrame associated with the external table.

Usage

# S3 method for default
createExternalTable(tableName, path = NULL, source = NULL,
  ...)

Arguments

tableName

a name of the table.

path

the path of files to load.

source

the name of external data source.

...

additional argument(s) passed to the method.

Value

A SparkDataFrame.

Details

The data source is specified by the source and a set of options(...). If source is not specified, the default data source configured by "spark.sql.sources.default" will be used.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
sparkR.session()
df <- createExternalTable("myjson", path="path/to/json", source="json")
# }