Head

Return the first num rows of a SparkDataFrame as a R data.frame. If num is not specified, then head() returns the first 6 rows as with R data.frame.

Usage

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

Arguments

x

a SparkDataFrame.

num

the number of rows to return. Default is 6.

Value

A data.frame.

Note

head since 1.4.0

See also

Other SparkDataFrame functions: SparkDataFrame-class, agg(), alias(), arrange(), as.data.frame(), attach,SparkDataFrame-method, broadcast(), cache(), checkpoint(), coalesce(), collect(), colnames(), coltypes(), createOrReplaceTempView(), crossJoin(), cube(), dapply(), dapplyCollect(), describe(), dim(), distinct(), drop(), dropDuplicates(), dropna(), dtypes(), except(), exceptAll(), explain(), filter(), first(), gapply(), gapplyCollect(), getNumPartitions(), group_by(), hint(), histogram(), insertInto(), intersect(), intersectAll(), isLocal(), isStreaming(), join(), limit(), localCheckpoint(), merge(), mutate(), ncol(), nrow(), persist(), printSchema(), randomSplit(), rbind(), rename(), repartition(), repartitionByRange(), rollup(), sample(), saveAsTable(), schema(), select(), selectExpr(), show(), showDF(), storageLevel(), str(), subset(), summary(), take(), toJSON(), union(), unionAll(), unionByName(), unpersist(), unpivot(), with(), withColumn(), withWatermark(), write.df(), write.jdbc(), write.json(), write.orc(), write.parquet(), write.stream(), write.text()

Examples

if (FALSE) {
sparkR.session()
path <- "path/to/file.json"
df <- read.json(path)
head(df)
}