sdf_unnest_wider

Unnest wider

Description

Flatten a struct column within a Spark dataframe into one or more columns, similar what to tidyr::unnest_wider does to an R dataframe

Usage

sdf_unnest_wider(
  data,
  col,
  names_sep = NULL,
  names_repair = "check_unique",
  ptype = list(),
  transform = list()
)

Arguments

Argument	Description
data	The Spark dataframe to be unnested
col	The struct column to extract components from
names_sep	If NULL, the default, the names will be left as is.

If a string, the inner and outer names will be pasted together using names_sep as the delimiter. names_repair | Strategy for fixing duplicate column names (the semantic will be exactly identical to that of .name_repair option in tibble) ptype | Optionally, supply an R data frame prototype for the output. Each column of the unnested result will be casted based on the Spark equivalent of the type of the column with the same name within ptype, e.g., if ptype has a column x of type character, then column x of the unnested result will be casted from its original SQL type to StringType. transform | Optionally, a named list of transformation functions applied to each component (e.g., list(x = as.character) to cast column x to String).

Examples

library(sparklyr)
sc <- spark_connect(master = "local", version = "2.4.0")

sdf <- copy_to(
  sc,
  tibble::tibble(
    x = 1:3,
    y = list(list(a = 1, b = 2), list(a = 3, b = 4), list(a = 5, b = 6))
  )
)

# flatten struct column 'y' into two separate columns 'y_a' and 'y_b'
unnested <- sdf %>% sdf_unnest_wider(y, names_sep = "_")