[SPARK-17902] collect() ignores stringsAsFactors

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.3, 2.2.1, 2.3.0
• Component/s: SparkR
• Assignee: Hyukjin Kwon
• Reporter: Hossein Falaki
• Created: 13/Oct/16 05:04
• Updated: 12/Dec/22 18:10
• Resolved: 26/Oct/17 11:55

Description

`collect()` function signature includes an optional flag named `stringsAsFactors`. It seems it is completely ignored.

str(collect(createDataFrame(iris), stringsAsFactors = TRUE)))

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #19551 (HyukjinKwon)