Github user sun-rui commented on the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/12836#issuecomment-220974249
  
    @NarineK, @shivaram, @davies, the pending issue is the signature of the R 
function. I think there are 3 options:
    1. function(df), where df is the data.frame of the group, containing the 
grouping columns. If the R function needs to use the key, it has to extract it 
from df itself.
    2. function(key, df), where key is a list of grouping column values for 
this group, df is the data.frame of the group, containing the grouping columns. 
 This is similar to the scala function signature for 
KeyValueGroupedData.flatMapGroups().
    3. function(key, df), where where key is a list of grouping column values 
for this group, df is the data.frame of the group, NOT containing the grouping 
columns. This has the benefit of saving communication traffic
    
    I personally like option 2. But technically it is possible to support both 
1&2 or 1&3.
    let's vote for a decision.
    
    @NarineK, Could you please investigate if there is any existing convention 
in R packages for such usage? 


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