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<img src="" class="logo" alt=""><h1>Select</h1>
<div class="d-none name"><code>select.Rd</code></div>
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<p>Selects a set of columns with names or Column expressions.</p>
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<h2 id="ref-usage">Usage<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#ref-usage"></a></h2>
<div class="sourceCode"><pre><code>select(x, col, ...)
# S4 method for SparkDataFrame
$(x, name)
# S4 method for SparkDataFrame
$(x, name) &lt;- value
# S4 method for SparkDataFrame,character
select(x, col, ...)
# S4 method for SparkDataFrame,Column
select(x, col, ...)
# S4 method for SparkDataFrame,list
select(x, col)</code></pre></div>
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<h2 id="arguments">Arguments<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#arguments"></a></h2>
<dl><dt>x</dt>
<dd><p>a SparkDataFrame.</p></dd>
<dt>col</dt>
<dd><p>a list of columns or single Column or name.</p></dd>
<dt>...</dt>
<dd><p>additional column(s) if only one column is specified in <code>col</code>.
If more than one column is assigned in <code>col</code>, <code>...</code>
should be left empty.</p></dd>
<dt>name</dt>
<dd><p>name of a Column (without being wrapped by <code>""</code>).</p></dd>
<dt>value</dt>
<dd><p>a Column or an atomic vector in the length of 1 as literal value, or <code>NULL</code>.
If <code>NULL</code>, the specified Column is dropped.</p></dd>
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<h2 id="value">Value<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#value"></a></h2>
<p>A new SparkDataFrame with selected columns.</p>
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<h2 id="note">Note<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#note"></a></h2>
<p>$ since 1.4.0</p>
<p>$&lt;- since 1.4.0</p>
<p>select(SparkDataFrame, character) since 1.4.0</p>
<p>select(SparkDataFrame, Column) since 1.4.0</p>
<p>select(SparkDataFrame, list) since 1.4.0</p>
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<h2 id="ref-examples">Examples<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#ref-examples"></a></h2>
<div class="sourceCode"><pre class="sourceCode r"><code><span class="r-in"><span><span class="kw">if</span> <span class="op">(</span><span class="cn">FALSE</span><span class="op">)</span> <span class="op">{</span></span></span>
<span class="r-in"><span> <span class="fu">select</span><span class="op">(</span><span class="va">df</span>, <span class="st">"*"</span><span class="op">)</span></span></span>
<span class="r-in"><span> <span class="fu">select</span><span class="op">(</span><span class="va">df</span>, <span class="st">"col1"</span>, <span class="st">"col2"</span><span class="op">)</span></span></span>
<span class="r-in"><span> <span class="fu">select</span><span class="op">(</span><span class="va">df</span>, <span class="va">df</span><span class="op">$</span><span class="va">name</span>, <span class="va">df</span><span class="op">$</span><span class="va">age</span> <span class="op">+</span> <span class="fl">1</span><span class="op">)</span></span></span>
<span class="r-in"><span> <span class="fu">select</span><span class="op">(</span><span class="va">df</span>, <span class="fu"><a href="https://rdrr.io/r/base/c.html" class="external-link">c</a></span><span class="op">(</span><span class="st">"col1"</span>, <span class="st">"col2"</span><span class="op">)</span><span class="op">)</span></span></span>
<span class="r-in"><span> <span class="fu">select</span><span class="op">(</span><span class="va">df</span>, <span class="fu"><a href="https://rdrr.io/r/base/list.html" class="external-link">list</a></span><span class="op">(</span><span class="va">df</span><span class="op">$</span><span class="va">name</span>, <span class="va">df</span><span class="op">$</span><span class="va">age</span> <span class="op">+</span> <span class="fl">1</span><span class="op">)</span><span class="op">)</span></span></span>
<span class="r-in"><span> <span class="co"># Similar to R data frames columns can also be selected using $</span></span></span>
<span class="r-in"><span> <span class="va">df</span><span class="op">[</span>,<span class="va">df</span><span class="op">$</span><span class="va">age</span><span class="op">]</span></span></span>
<span class="r-in"><span><span class="op">}</span></span></span>
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