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Hyukjin Kwon resolved SPARK-17774.
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    Resolution: Incomplete

> Add support for head on DataFrame Column
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>                 Key: SPARK-17774
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-17774
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: SparkR
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.0
>            Reporter: Hossein Falaki
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: bulk-closed
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> There was a lot of discussion on SPARK-9325. To summarize the conversation on 
> that ticket regardign {{collect}}
> * Pro: Ease of use and maximum compatibility with existing R API
> * Con: We do not want to increase maintenance cost by opening arbitrary API. 
> With Spark's DataFrame API {{collect}} does not work on {{Column}} and there 
> is no need for it to work in R.
> This ticket is strictly about {{head}}. I propose supporting {{head}} on 
> {{Column}} because:
> 1. R users are already used to calling {{head(iris$Sepal.Length)}}. When they 
> do that on SparkDataFrame they get an error. Not a good experience
> 2. Adding support for it does not require any change to the backend. It can 
> be trivially done in R code. 



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