You can use callUDF(col("mycol"), lit(0.25)) to call hive UDFs from
dataframes.
On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:01 PM, unk1102 <umesh.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi how to calculate percentile of a column in a DataFrame? I cant find any
> percentile_approx function in Spark aggregation functions. For e.g. in Hive
> we have percentile_approx and we can use it in the following way
>
> hiveContext.sql("select percentile_approx("mycol",0.25) from myTable);
>
> I can see ntile function but not sure how it is gonna give results same as
> above query please guide.
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