Github user shivaram commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/20464 One thing to keep in mind is what the user's perception of the API is. If R users are going to use 1-based indexing then this might not be the right fix ? http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/base/html/substr.html is the base R function FWIW
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