sdf_register: Register a Spark DataFrame
Description
Registers a Spark DataFrame (giving it a table name for the
Spark SQL context), and returns a tbl_spark.
Usage
sdf_register(x, name = NULL)
Arguments
name
A name to assign this table.
Transforming Spark DataFrames
The family of functions prefixed with sdf_ generally access the Scala
Spark DataFrame API directly, as opposed to the dplyr interface which
uses Spark SQL. These functions will 'force' any pending SQL in a
dplyr pipeline, such that the resulting tbl_spark object
returned will no longer have the attached 'lazy' SQL operations. Note that
the underlying Spark DataFrame does execute its operations lazily, so
that even though the pending set of operations (currently) are not exposed at
the R level, these operations will only be executed when you explicitly
collect() the table.