head {SparkR}R Documentation

Head

Description

Return the first NUM rows of a SparkDataFrame as a data.frame. If NUM is NULL, then head() returns the first 6 rows in keeping with the current data.frame convention in R.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'SparkDataFrame'
head(x, num = 6L)

Arguments

x

A SparkDataFrame

num

The number of rows to return. Default is 6.

Value

A data.frame

See Also

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, first, group_by, 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 head(df)
## End(Not run)

[Package SparkR version 2.0.0 Index]