hof_array_sort

Sorts array using a custom comparator

Description

Applies a custom comparator function to sort an array (this is essentially a dplyr wrapper to the array_sort(expr, func) higher- order function, which is supported since Spark 3.0)

Usage

hof_array_sort(x, func, expr = NULL, dest_col = NULL, ...)

Arguments

Argument	Description
x	The Spark data frame to be processed
func	The comparator function to apply (it should take 2 array elements as arguments

and return an integer, with a return value of -1 indicating the first element is less than the second, 0 indicating equality, or 1 indicating the first element is greater than the second) expr | The array being sorted, could be any SQL expression evaluating to an array (default: the last column of the Spark data frame) dest_col | Column to store the sorted result (default: expr) … | Additional params to dplyr::mutate

Examples

library(sparklyr)
sc <- spark_connect(master = "local", version = "3.0.0")
copy_to(
  sc,
  tibble::tibble(
    # x contains 2 arrays each having elements in ascending order
    x = list(1:5, 6:10)
  )
) %>%
  # now each array from x gets sorted in descending order
  hof_array_sort(~ as.integer(sign(.y - .x)))