write.parquet {SparkR}R Documentation

write.parquet

Description

Save the contents of a SparkDataFrame as a Parquet file, preserving the schema. Files written out with this method can be read back in as a SparkDataFrame using read.parquet().

Usage

write.parquet(x, path)

saveAsParquetFile(x, path)

## S4 method for signature 'SparkDataFrame,character'
write.parquet(x, path)

## S4 method for signature 'SparkDataFrame,character'
saveAsParquetFile(x, path)

Arguments

x

A SparkDataFrame

path

The directory where the file is saved

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, 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.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 write.parquet(df, "/tmp/sparkr-tmp1/")
##D saveAsParquetFile(df, "/tmp/sparkr-tmp2/")
## End(Not run)

[Package SparkR version 2.0.0 Index]