[SPARK-30682] Add higher order functions API to SparkR

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.1.0
• Component/s: SparkR, SQL
• Assignee: Maciej Szymkiewicz
• Reporter: Maciej Szymkiewicz
• Created: 30/Jan/20 13:21
• Updated: 12/Dec/22 18:10
• Resolved: 28/Feb/20 03:59

Description

As of 3.0.0 higher order functions are available in SQL and Scala, but not in SparkR forcing R users to invoke these through expr, selectExpr or sql.

It would be great if Spark provided high level wrappers that accept plain R functions operating on SQL expressions.

Issue Links

• is related to: SPARK-27297 Add higher order functions to Scala API
• is related to: SPARK-30681 Add higher order functions API to PySpark
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #31226 (HyukjinKwon)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #31226 (HyukjinKwon)
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #27433