RImpala_describe: Function to describe any table present in Hive's metastore

In RImpala: Using Cloudera 'Impala' Through 'R'

Description

This function runs the describe query of Impala against the table passed as an argument to the function

Usage

rimpala.describe(table)

Arguments

table

The name of the table that needs to be described

Value

Returns an dataframe that contains the details of the table as displayed by the describe command

Author(s)

Vijay Raajaa [e-mail],
Austin Chungath Vincent [e-mail],
Vikas Raguttahalli [e-mail],
Sachin Sudarshana [e-mail]

Examples

## Not run: 
library("RImpala")
rimpala.init()
rimpala.connect("127.0.0.1","21050")
des=rimpala.describe(table="sample_table")

## End(Not run)

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