R: Read the Schema of a Spark DataFrame

sdf_schema {sparklyr} | R Documentation

## Read the Schema of a Spark DataFrame

### Description

Read the schema of a Spark DataFrame.

### Usage

    sdf_schema(x)

### Arguments

`x` | A `spark_connection`, `ml_pipeline`, or a `tbl_spark`.

### Details

The `type` column returned gives the string representation of the underlying Spark type for that column; for example, a vector of numeric values would be returned with the type `"DoubleType"`. Please see the Spark Scala API Documentation for information on what types are available and exposed by Spark.

### Value

An R `list`, with each `list` element describing the `name` and `type` of a column.

[Package sparklyr version 0.7.0 Index]