SparkR (version 2.1.2)

createOrReplaceTempView: Creates a temporary view using the given name.

Description

Creates a new temporary view using a SparkDataFrame in the Spark Session. If a temporary view with the same name already exists, replaces it.

Usage

createOrReplaceTempView(x, viewName)
# S4 method for SparkDataFrame,character
createOrReplaceTempView(x, viewName)

Arguments

x

A SparkDataFrame

viewName

A character vector containing the name of the table

See Also

Other SparkDataFrame functions: SparkDataFrame-class, agg, arrange, as.data.frame, attach, cache, coalesce, collect, colnames, coltypes, crossJoin, dapplyCollect, dapply, describe, dim, distinct, dropDuplicates, dropna, drop, dtypes, except, explain, filter, first, gapplyCollect, gapply, getNumPartitions, group_by, head, histogram, insertInto, intersect, isLocal, join, limit, merge, mutate, ncol, nrow, persist, printSchema, randomSplit, rbind, registerTempTable, rename, repartition, sample, saveAsTable, schema, selectExpr, select, showDF, show, storageLevel, str, subset, take, union, unpersist, withColumn, with, write.df, write.jdbc, write.json, write.orc, write.parquet, write.text

Examples

# NOT RUN {
sparkR.session()
path <- "path/to/file.json"
df <- read.json(path)
createOrReplaceTempView(df, "json_df")
new_df <- sql("SELECT * FROM json_df")
# }

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