thanks much Michael let me try.
On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 1:20 AM, Michael Armbrust <mich...@databricks.com>
wrote:
> This is confusing because I made a typo...
>
> callUDF("percentile_approx", col("mycol"), lit(0.25))
>
> The first argument is the name of the UDF, all other arguments need to be
> columns that are passed in as arguments. lit is just saying to make a
> literal column that always has the value 0.25.
>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:16 PM, <saif.a.ell...@wellsfargo.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes but I mean, this is rather curious. How is def lit(literal:Any) -->
>> becomes a percentile function lit(25)
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for clarification
>>
>> Saif
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Umesh Kacha [mailto:umesh.ka...@gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* Friday, October 09, 2015 4:10 PM
>> *To:* Ellafi, Saif A.
>> *Cc:* Michael Armbrust; user
>>
>> *Subject:* Re: How to calculate percentile of a column of DataFrame?
>>
>>
>>
>> I found it in 1.3 documentation lit says something else not percent
>>
>>
>>
>> public static Column
>> <https://spark.apache.org/docs/1.3.1/api/java/org/apache/spark/sql/Column.html>
>> lit(Object literal)
>>
>> Creates a Column
>> <https://spark.apache.org/docs/1.3.1/api/java/org/apache/spark/sql/Column.html>
>> of
>> literal value.
>>
>> The passed in object is returned directly if it is already a Column
>> <https://spark.apache.org/docs/1.3.1/api/java/org/apache/spark/sql/Column.html>.
>> If the object is a Scala Symbol, it is converted into a Column
>> <https://spark.apache.org/docs/1.3.1/api/java/org/apache/spark/sql/Column.html>
>> also.
>> Otherwise, a new Column
>> <https://spark.apache.org/docs/1.3.1/api/java/org/apache/spark/sql/Column.html>
>> is
>> created to represent the literal value.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 12:39 AM, <saif.a.ell...@wellsfargo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Where can we find other available functions such as lit() ? I can’t find
>> lit in the api.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Michael Armbrust [mailto:mich...@databricks.com]
>> *Sent:* Friday, October 09, 2015 4:04 PM
>> *To:* unk1102
>> *Cc:* user
>> *Subject:* Re: How to calculate percentile of a column of DataFrame?
>>
>>
>>
>> You can use callUDF(col("mycol"), lit(0.25)) to call hive UDFs from
>> dataframes.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:01 PM, unk1102 <umesh.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi how to calculate percentile of a column in a DataFrame? I cant find any
>> percentile_approx function in Spark aggregation functions. For e.g. in
>> Hive
>> we have percentile_approx and we can use it in the following way
>>
>> hiveContext.sql("select percentile_approx("mycol",0.25) from myTable);
>>
>> I can see ntile function but not sure how it is gonna give results same as
>> above query please guide.
>>
>>
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