cast: Casts the column to a different data type.

In SparkR: R Front End for 'Apache Spark'

Description

Casts the column to a different data type.

Usage

cast(x, dataType)

## S4 method for signature 'Column'
cast(x, dataType)

Arguments

x	a Column.
dataType	a character object describing the target data type. See Spark Data Types for available data types.

Note

cast since 1.4.0

See Also

Other column_func: alias(), between(), endsWith(), otherwise(), over(), startsWith(), substr()

Examples

## Not run: 
  cast(df$age, "string")

## End(Not run)

SparkR documentation built on June 3, 2021, 5:05 p.m.