Any difference between using agg or select to do the aggregations? On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 5:08 PM, yohann jardin <yohannjar...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Seen directly in the code: > > > /** > * Aggregate function: returns the average of the values in a group. > * Alias for avg. > * > * @group agg_funcs > * @since 1.4.0 > */ > def mean(e: Column): Column = avg(e) > > > That's the same when the argument is the column name. > > So no difference between mean and avg functions. > > > ------------------------------ > *De :* Aseem Bansal <asmbans...@gmail.com> > *Envoyé :* lundi 24 juillet 2017 13:34 > *À :* user > *Objet :* Is there a difference between these aggregations > > If I want to aggregate mean and subtract from my column I can do either of > the following in Spark 2.1.0 Java API. Is there any difference between > these? Couldn't find anything from reading the docs. > > dataset.select(mean("mycol")) > dataset.agg(mean("mycol")) > > dataset.select(avg("mycol")) > dataset.agg(avg("mycol")) >