Github user felixcheung commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/20464#discussion_r165570529
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- The `stringsAsFactors` parameter was previously ignored with `collect`,
for example, in `collect(createDataFrame(iris), stringsAsFactors = TRUE))`. It
has been corrected.
- For `summary`, option for statistics to compute has been added. Its
output is changed from that from `describe`.
- A warning can be raised if versions of SparkR package and the Spark JVM
do not match.
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+## Upgrading to Spark 2.4.0
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+ - The first parameter of `substr` method was wrongly subtracted by one,
previously. This can lead to inconsistent substring results and also does not
match with the behaviour with `substr` in R. It has been corrected.
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instead of `The first parameter of ` -> `The ``start`` parameter of...`
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