[SPARK-17811] SparkR cannot parallelize data.frame with NA or NULL in Date columns

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.2, 2.1.0
• Component/s: SparkR
• Assignee: Hossein Falaki
• Reporter: Hossein Falaki
• Created: 06/Oct/16 20:17
• Updated: 31/Jan/23 05:05
• Resolved: 22/Oct/16 05:35

Description

To reproduce:

df <- data.frame(Date = as.Date(c(rep("2016-01-10", 10), "NA", "NA")), id = 1:12)

dim(createDataFrame(df))

We don't seem to have this problem with POSIXlt

df <- data.frame(Date = as.POSIXlt(as.Date(c(rep("2016-01-10", 10), "NA", "NA"))), id = 1:12)
dim(createDataFrame(df))

Issue Links

• relates to: SPARK-42005 SparkR cannot collect dataframe with NA in a date column along with another timestamp column
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #15421 (falaki)