first {SparkR}R Documentation

Return the first row of a SparkDataFrame

Description

Return the first row of a SparkDataFrame

Aggregate function: returns the first value in a group.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'SparkDataFrame'
first(x)

## S4 method for signature 'characterOrColumn'
first(x, na.rm = FALSE)

Arguments

x

A SparkDataFrame

Details

The function by default returns the first values it sees. It will return the first non-missing value it sees when na.rm is set to true. If all values are missing, then NA is returned.

See Also

Other agg_funcs: agg, approxCountDistinct, avg, countDistinct, kurtosis, last, max, mean, min, n, sd, skewness, stddev_pop, stddev_samp, sumDistinct, sum, var_pop, var_samp, var

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, group_by, head, histogram, insertInto, intersect, isLocal, join, limit, merge, mutate, ncol, persist, printSchema, registerTempTable, rename, repartition, sample, saveAsTable, selectExpr, 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 first(df)
## End(Not run)
## Not run: 
##D first(df$c)
##D first(df$c, TRUE)
## End(Not run)

[Package SparkR version 2.0.0 Index]