You can try selectExpr() of DataFrame. for example, y<-selectExpr(df, "concat(hashtags.text[0],hashtags.text[1])") # [] operator is used to extract an item from an array
or sql(hiveContext, "select concat(hashtags.text[0],hashtags.text[1]) from table") Yeah, the documentation of SparkR is not so complete. You may use scala documentation as reference, and try if some method is supported in SparkR. ________________________________ From: jianshu Weng [jian...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 9:37 PM To: Sun, Rui Cc: user@spark.apache.org Subject: Re: [SparkR] creating dataframe from json file Thanks. t <- getField(df$hashtags, "text") does return a Column. But when I tried to call t <- getField(df$hashtags, "text"), it would give an error: Error: All select() inputs must resolve to integer column positions. The following do not: * getField(df$hashtags, "text") In fact, the "text" field in df is now return as something like List(<hashtag1>, <hashtag2>). Want to flat the list out and make the field a string like "<hashtag1>, <hashtag2>". You mentioned in the email that "then you can perform operations on the column.". Bear with me if you feel the question is too naive, am still new to SparkR. But what operations are allowed on the column, in the SparkR documentation, I didnt find any specific function for column operation (https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/R/index.html). I didnt even fine "getField" function in the documentation as well. Thanks, -JS On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Sun, Rui <rui....@intel.com<mailto:rui....@intel.com>> wrote: suppose df <- jsonFile(sqlContext, "<json file>") You can extract hashtags.text as a Column object using the following command: t <- getField(df$hashtags, "text") and then you can perform operations on the column. You can extract hashtags.text as a DataFrame using the following command: t <- select(df, getField(df$hashtags, "text")) showDF(t) Or you can use SQL query to extract the field: hiveContext <- sparkRHive.init() df <-jsonFile(hiveContext,"<json file>") registerTempTable(df, "table") t <- sql(hiveContext, "select hashtags.text from table") showDF(t) ________________________________________ From: jianshu [jian...@gmail.com<mailto:jian...@gmail.com>] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 4:42 PM To: user@spark.apache.org<mailto:user@spark.apache.org> Subject: [SparkR] creating dataframe from json file hi all, Not sure whether this the right venue to ask. If not, please point me to the right group, if there is any. I'm trying to create a Spark DataFrame from JSON file using jsonFile(). The call was successful, and I can see the DataFrame created. The JSON file I have contains a number of tweets obtained from Twitter API. Am particularly interested in pulling the hashtags contains in the tweets. If I use printSchema(), the schema is something like: root |-- id_str: string (nullable = true) |-- hashtags: array (nullable = true) | |-- element: struct (containsNull = true) | | |-- indices: array (nullable = true) | | | |-- element: long (containsNull = true) | | |-- text: string (nullable = true) showDF() would show something like this : +--------------------+ | hashtags| +--------------------+ | List()| |List([List(125, 1...| | List()| |List([List(0, 3),...| |List([List(76, 86...| | List()| |List([List(74, 84...| | List()| | List()| | List()| |List([List(85, 96...| |List([List(125, 1...| | List()| | List()| | List()| | List()| |List([List(14, 17...| | List()| | List()| |List([List(14, 17...| +--------------------+ The question is now how to extract the text of the hashtags for each tweet? Still new to SparkR. Am thinking maybe I need to loop through the dataframe to extract for each tweet. But it seems that lapply does not really apply on Spark DataFrame as more. Any though on how to extract the text, as it will be inside a JSON array. Thanks, -JS -- View this message in context: http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/SparkR-creating-dataframe-from-json-file-tp23849.html Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org<mailto:user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org<mailto:user-h...@spark.apache.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org
