In 1.4 it actually shows col1 by default. In 1.3, you can add "col1" to the output, i.e.
df.groupBy($"col1").agg($"col1", count($"col1").as("c")).show() On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 11:22 PM, SLiZn Liu <sliznmail...@gmail.com> wrote: > However this returns a single column of c, without showing the original > col1. > > > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 11:25 PM Ram Sriharsha <sriharsha....@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> df.groupBy($"col1").agg(count($"col1").as("c")).show >> >> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 3:09 AM, SLiZn Liu <sliznmail...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Spark Users Group, >>> >>> I’m doing groupby operations on my DataFrame *df* as following, to get >>> count for each value of col1: >>> >>> > df.groupBy("col1").agg("col1" -> "count").show // I don't know if I >>> > should write like this. >>> col1 COUNT(col1#347) >>> aaa 2 >>> bbb 4 >>> ccc 4 >>> ... >>> and more... >>> >>> As I ‘d like to sort by the resulting count, with >>> .sort("COUNT(col1#347)"), but the column name of the count result >>> obviously cannot be retrieved in advance. Intuitively one might consider >>> acquire column name by column index in a fashion of R’s DataFrame, except >>> Spark doesn’t support. I have Googled *spark agg alias* and so forth, >>> and checked DataFrame.as in Spark API, neither helped on this. Am I the >>> only one who had ever got stuck on this issue or anything I have missed? >>> >>> REGARDS, >>> Todd Leo >>> >>> >> >>