[SPARK-6818] Support column deletion in SparkR DataFrame API

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: SparkR, SQL
• Target Version/s: 1.4.0
• External issue URL: https://sparkr.atlassian.net/browse/SPARKR-227
• Assignee: Sun Rui
• Reporter: Shivaram Venkataraman
• Created: 09/Apr/15 20:59
• Updated: 23/Apr/15 23:09
• Resolved: 23/Apr/15 23:08

Description

We should support deleting columns using traditional R syntax i.e. something like df$age <- NULL
should delete the `age` column

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #5655 (sun-rui)