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| <h2>Casts the column to a different data type.</h2> |
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| <h3>Description</h3> |
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| <p>Casts the column to a different data type. |
| </p> |
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| <h3>Usage</h3> |
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| <pre><code class='language-R'>cast(x, dataType) |
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| ## S4 method for signature 'Column' |
| cast(x, dataType) |
| </code></pre> |
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| <h3>Arguments</h3> |
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| <table> |
| <tr style="vertical-align: top;"><td><code>x</code></td> |
| <td> |
| <p>a Column.</p> |
| </td></tr> |
| <tr style="vertical-align: top;"><td><code>dataType</code></td> |
| <td> |
| <p>a character object describing the target data type. |
| See |
| <a href="https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sparkr.html#data-type-mapping-between-r-and-spark"> |
| Spark Data Types</a> for available data types.</p> |
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| <h3>Note</h3> |
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| <p>cast since 1.4.0 |
| </p> |
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| <h3>See Also</h3> |
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| <p>Other column_func: |
| <code><a href="../../SparkR/help/alias.html">alias</a>()</code>, |
| <code><a href="../../SparkR/help/between.html">between</a>()</code>, |
| <code><a href="../../SparkR/help/endsWith.html">endsWith</a>()</code>, |
| <code><a href="../../SparkR/help/otherwise.html">otherwise</a>()</code>, |
| <code><a href="../../SparkR/help/over.html">over</a>()</code>, |
| <code><a href="../../SparkR/help/startsWith.html">startsWith</a>()</code>, |
| <code><a href="../../SparkR/help/substr.html">substr</a>()</code> |
| </p> |
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| <h3>Examples</h3> |
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| <pre><code class="language-r">## Not run: |
| ##D cast(df$age, "string") |
| ## End(Not run) |
| </code></pre> |
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