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Timothy Hunter commented on SPARK-12922: ---------------------------------------- [~Narine] while working on a similar function for python [1], we found it easier to have the following changes: - the keys are appended by default to the spark dataframe being returned - the output schema that the users provides is the schema of the R data frame and does not include the keys Here were our reasons to depart from the R implementation of gapply: - in most cases, users will want to know the key associated with a result -> appending the key is the sensible default - most functions in the SQL interface and in MLlib append columns, and gapply departs from this philosophy - for the cases when they do not need it, adding the key is a fraction of the computation time and of the output size - from a formal perspective, it makes calling gapply fully transparent to the type of the key: it is easier to build a function with gapply because it does not need to know anything about the key I think it would make sense to make this change to the R's gapply implementation. Let me know what you think about it. [1] https://github.com/databricks/spark-sklearn/blob/master/python/spark_sklearn/group_apply.py > Implement gapply() on DataFrame in SparkR > ----------------------------------------- > > Key: SPARK-12922 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-12922 > Project: Spark > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: SparkR > Affects Versions: 1.6.0 > Reporter: Sun Rui > Assignee: Narine Kokhlikyan > Fix For: 2.0.0 > > > gapply() applies an R function on groups grouped by one or more columns of a > DataFrame, and returns a DataFrame. It is like GroupedDataSet.flatMapGroups() > in the Dataset API. > Two API styles are supported: > 1. > {code} > gd <- groupBy(df, col1, ...) > gapply(gd, function(grouping_key, group) {}, schema) > {code} > 2. > {code} > gapply(df, grouping_columns, function(grouping_key, group) {}, schema) > {code} > R function input: grouping keys value, a local data.frame of this grouped > data > R function output: local data.frame > Schema specifies the Row format of the output of the R function. It must > match the R function's output. > Note that map-side combination (partial aggregation) is not supported, user > could do map-side combination via dapply(). -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@spark.apache.org