[SPARK-20917] SparkR supports string encoding consistent with R

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.0
• Component/s: SparkR
• Target Version/s: 2.3.0
• Assignee: Wayne Zhang
• Reporter: Wayne Zhang
• Shepherd: Felix Cheung
• Created: 30/May/17 01:43
• Updated: 21/Jun/17 17:35
• Resolved: 21/Jun/17 17:35

Description

Add stringIndexerOrderType to spark.glm and spark.survreg to support string encoding that is consistent with default R.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #18140 (actuaryzhang)