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Shivaram Venkataraman commented on SPARK-7499:
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[~sd2k] Thanks for taking a shot at this -- One question I have about this 
approach is if we can avoid implementing new versions of all these functions. 
i.e. is there a common sub-routine we can create that given a set of 
identifiers / columns will resolve them to SparkR DataFrame columns ? 

Also just to help me understand this better, what is the specific function in 
dplyr we are using here ?

> Investigate how to specify columns in SparkR without $ or strings
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>
>                 Key: SPARK-7499
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-7499
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: SparkR
>            Reporter: Shivaram Venkataraman
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> Right now in SparkR we need to specify the columns used using `$` or strings. 
> For example to run select we would do
> {code}
> df1 <- select(df, df$age > 10)
> {code}
> It would be good to infer the set of columns in a dataframe automatically and 
> resolve symbols for column names. For example
> {code} 
> df1 <- select(df, age > 10)
> {code}
> One way to do this is to build an environment with all the column names to 
> column handles and then use `substitute(arg, env = columnNameEnv)`



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