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sparklyr (version 1.8.5)

spark_write_json: Write a Spark DataFrame to a JSON file

Description

Serialize a Spark DataFrame to the JavaScript Object Notation format.

Usage

spark_write_json(
  x,
  path,
  mode = NULL,
  options = list(),
  partition_by = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

x

A Spark DataFrame or dplyr operation

path

The path to the file. Needs to be accessible from the cluster. Supports the "hdfs://", "s3a://" and "file://" protocols.

mode

A character element. Specifies the behavior when data or table already exists. Supported values include: 'error', 'append', 'overwrite' and ignore. Notice that 'overwrite' will also change the column structure.

For more details see also https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html#save-modes for your version of Spark.

options

A list of strings with additional options.

partition_by

A character vector. Partitions the output by the given columns on the file system.

...

Optional arguments; currently unused.

See Also

Other Spark serialization routines: collect_from_rds(), spark_insert_table(), spark_load_table(), spark_read_avro(), spark_read_binary(), spark_read_csv(), spark_read_delta(), spark_read_image(), spark_read_jdbc(), spark_read_json(), spark_read_libsvm(), spark_read_orc(), spark_read_parquet(), spark_read_source(), spark_read_table(), spark_read_text(), spark_read(), spark_save_table(), spark_write_avro(), spark_write_csv(), spark_write_delta(), spark_write_jdbc(), spark_write_orc(), spark_write_parquet(), spark_write_source(), spark_write_table(), spark_write_text()