[SPARK-7231] Make SparkR DataFrame API more dplyr friendly

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: SparkR
• Target Version/s: 1.4.0
• Assignee: Shivaram Venkataraman
• Reporter: Shivaram Venkataraman
• Created: 29/Apr/15 08:26
• Updated: 20/Aug/15 16:00
• Resolved: 09/May/15 01:30

Description

This ticket tracks auditing the SparkR dataframe API and ensuring that the API is friendly to existing R users.

Mainly we wish to make sure the DataFrame API we expose has functions similar to those which exist on native R data frames and in popular packages like `dplyr`.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #6005 (shivaram)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #8341 (liancheng)