[SPARK-19452] Fix bug in the name assignment method in SparkR

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.0, 2.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.2.0
• Component/s: SparkR
• Target Version/s: 2.2.0
• Assignee: Wayne Zhang
• Reporter: Wayne Zhang
• Shepherd: Felix Cheung
• Created: 03/Feb/17 19:37
• Updated: 05/Feb/17 19:38
• Resolved: 05/Feb/17 19:38

Description

The names method fails to check for validity of the assignment values. This can be fixed by calling colnames within names. See example below.

df <- suppressWarnings(createDataFrame(iris))
# this is error
colnames(df) <- NULL
# this should report error
names(df) <- NULL

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #16794 (actuaryzhang)