Sun Rui created SPARK-7482:
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Summary: Rename some DataFrame API methods in SparkR to match
their counterparts in Scala
Key: SPARK-7482
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-7482
Project: Spark
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: SparkR
Affects Versions: 1.4.0
Reporter: Sun Rui
Priority: Critical
This is re-consideration on how to solve name conflict. Previously, we rename
API names from Scala API if there is name conflict with base or other
commonly-used packages. However, from long term perspective, this is not good
for API stability, because we can't predict name conflicts, for example, if in
the future a name added in base package conflicts with an API in SparkR? So the
better policy is to keep API name same as Scala's without worrying about name
conflicts. When users use SparkR, they should load SparkR as last package, so
that all API names are effective. Use can explicitly use :: to refer to hidden
names from other packages.
more discussion can be found at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-6812
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