Hello,
I'm trying to calculate the distance between a gene (with start and end)
and a variant (with position), so I joined gene and variant data by
chromosome and then tried to calculate the distance like this:
```
distances = joined.withColumn("distance", max(col("start") -
col("position"), col("position") - col("end"), 0))
```
Basically, the distance is the maximum of three terms.
This line causes an obscure error:
```
ValueError: Cannot convert column into bool: please use '&' for 'and', '|'
for 'or', '~' for 'not' when building DataFrame boolean expressions.
```
How can I do this? Thanks!
Best, Oliver
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Oliver Ruebenacker, Ph.D. (he)
Senior Software Engineer, Knowledge Portal Network
<http://kp4cd.org/>, Flannick
Lab <http://www.flannicklab.org/>, Broad Institute
<http://www.broadinstitute.org/>
