| describe {SparkR} | R Documentation |
Computes statistics for numeric and string columns. If no columns are given, this function computes statistics for all numerical or string columns.
describe(x, col, ...) ## S4 method for signature 'SparkDataFrame,character' describe(x, col, ...) ## S4 method for signature 'SparkDataFrame,ANY' describe(x)
x |
a SparkDataFrame to be computed. |
col |
a string of name. |
... |
additional expressions. |
A SparkDataFrame.
describe(SparkDataFrame, character) since 1.4.0
describe(SparkDataFrame) since 1.4.0
See summary for expanded statistics and control over which statistics to compute.
Other SparkDataFrame functions:
SparkDataFrame-class,
agg(),
alias(),
arrange(),
as.data.frame(),
attach,SparkDataFrame-method,
broadcast(),
cache(),
checkpoint(),
coalesce(),
collect(),
colnames(),
coltypes(),
createOrReplaceTempView(),
crossJoin(),
cube(),
dapplyCollect(),
dapply(),
dim(),
distinct(),
dropDuplicates(),
dropna(),
drop(),
dtypes(),
exceptAll(),
except(),
explain(),
filter(),
first(),
gapplyCollect(),
gapply(),
getNumPartitions(),
group_by(),
head(),
hint(),
histogram(),
insertInto(),
intersectAll(),
intersect(),
isLocal(),
isStreaming(),
join(),
limit(),
localCheckpoint(),
merge(),
mutate(),
ncol(),
nrow(),
persist(),
printSchema(),
randomSplit(),
rbind(),
rename(),
repartitionByRange(),
repartition(),
rollup(),
sample(),
saveAsTable(),
schema(),
selectExpr(),
select(),
showDF(),
show(),
storageLevel(),
str(),
subset(),
summary(),
take(),
toJSON(),
unionAll(),
unionByName(),
union(),
unpersist(),
withColumn(),
withWatermark(),
with(),
write.df(),
write.jdbc(),
write.json(),
write.orc(),
write.parquet(),
write.stream(),
write.text()
## Not run:
##D sparkR.session()
##D path <- "path/to/file.json"
##D df <- read.json(path)
##D describe(df)
##D describe(df, "col1")
##D describe(df, "col1", "col2")
## End(Not run)