spark_insert_table: Inserts a Spark DataFrame into a Spark table

In sparklyr: R Interface to Apache Spark

Inserts a Spark DataFrame into a Spark table

Description

Inserts a Spark DataFrame into a Spark table

Usage

spark_insert_table(
  x,
  name,
  mode = NULL,
  overwrite = FALSE,
  options = list(),
  ...
)

Arguments

x	A Spark DataFrame or dplyr operation
name	The name to assign to the newly generated table.
mode	A character element. Specifies the behavior when data or table already exists. Supported values include: 'error', 'append', 'overwrite' and ignore. Notice that 'overwrite' will also change the column structure. For more details see also https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html#save-modes for your version of Spark.
overwrite	Boolean; overwrite the table with the given name if it already exists?
options	A list of strings with additional options.
...	Optional arguments; currently unused.

See Also

Other Spark serialization routines: collect_from_rds(), spark_load_table(), spark_read(), spark_read_avro(), spark_read_binary(), spark_read_csv(), spark_read_delta(), spark_read_image(), spark_read_jdbc(), spark_read_json(), spark_read_libsvm(), spark_read_orc(), spark_read_parquet(), spark_read_source(), spark_read_table(), spark_read_text(), spark_save_table(), spark_write_avro(), spark_write_csv(), spark_write_delta(), spark_write_jdbc(), spark_write_json(), spark_write_orc(), spark_write_parquet(), spark_write_source(), spark_write_table(), spark_write_text()

sparklyr documentation built on Nov. 5, 2025, 6:37 p.m.