Drop multiple columns in the DataFrame API

2015-11-20 Thread BenFradet
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Drop multiple columns in the DataFrame API

2015-11-19 Thread Benjamin Fradet
Hi everyone, I was wondering if there is a better way to drop mutliple columns from a dataframe or why there is no drop(cols: Column*) method in the dataframe API. Indeed, I tend to write code like this: val filteredDF = df.drop("colA") .drop("colB") .drop("colC") //etc which is a