Depending on your spark version, you can convert schemaRDD to a dataframe and then use .show() On 30 May 2015 10:33, "Minnow Noir" <minnown...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I"m trying to debug query results inside spark-shell, but finding it > cumbersome to save to file and then use file system utils to explore the > results, and .foreach(print) tends to interleave the results among the > myriad log messages. Take() and collect() truncate. > > Is there a simple way to present the contents of an RDD/SchemaRDD on the > screen in a formatted way? For example, say I want to take() the first 30 > lines/rows in an *RDD and present them in a readable way on the screen so > that I can see what's missing or invalid. Obviously, I'm just trying to > sample the results in a readable way, not download everything to the driver. > > > Thank you >