Github user rxin commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/18307#discussion_r125146063
--- Diff: sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/Dataset.scala ---
@@ -2205,37 +2205,151 @@ class Dataset[T] private[sql](
* // max 92.0 192.0
* }}}
*
+ * See also [[summary]]
+ *
+ * @param cols Columns to compute statistics on.
+ *
* @group action
* @since 1.6.0
*/
@scala.annotation.varargs
- def describe(cols: String*): DataFrame = withPlan {
+ def describe(cols: String*): DataFrame = {
+ val selected = if (cols.isEmpty) this else select(cols.head,
cols.tail: _*)
+ selected.summary("count", "mean", "stddev", "min", "max")
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Computes specified statistics for numeric and string columns.
Available statistics are:
+ *
+ * - count
+ * - mean
+ * - stddev
+ * - min
+ * - max
+ * - arbitrary approximate percentiles specified as a percentage (eg,
75%)
+ *
+ * If no statistics are given, this function computes count, mean,
stddev, min,
+ * approximate quartiles, and max.
+ *
+ * This function is meant for exploratory data analysis, as we make no
guarantee about the
+ * backward compatibility of the schema of the resulting Dataset. If you
want to
+ * programmatically compute summary statistics, use the `agg` function
instead.
+ *
+ * {{{
+ * ds.summary().show()
+ *
+ * // output:
+ * // summary age height
+ * // count 10.0 10.0
+ * // mean 53.3 178.05
+ * // stddev 11.6 15.7
+ * // min 18.0 163.0
+ * // 25% 24.0 176.0
+ * // 50% 24.0 176.0
+ * // 75% 32.0 180.0
+ * // max 92.0 192.0
+ * }}}
+ *
+ * {{{
+ * ds.summary("count", "min", "25%", "75%", "max").show()
+ *
+ * // output:
+ * // summary age height
+ * // count 10.0 10.0
+ * // min 18.0 163.0
+ * // 25% 24.0 176.0
+ * // 75% 32.0 180.0
+ * // max 92.0 192.0
+ * }}}
+ *
+ * @param statistics Statistics from above list to be computed.
+ *
+ * @group action
+ * @since 2.3.0
+ */
+ @scala.annotation.varargs
+ def summary(statistics: String*): DataFrame = withPlan {
--- End diff --
can we move the implementation into
org.apache.spark.sql.execution.stat.StatFunctions? I worry Dataset is getting
too long. It should probably be mostly an interface / delegation and most of
the implementations are elsewhere.
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