I can't comment on the direction of the DataFrame API (that's more for Reynold or Michael I guess), but I just wanted to point out that the JIRA would be the recommended way to create a central place for discussing a feature add like that.
Nick On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 3:43 PM Olivier Girardot < o.girar...@lateral-thoughts.com> wrote: > Hi Nicholas, > yes I've already checked, and I've just created the > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-7247 > I'm not even sure why this would be a good feature to add except the fact > that some of the data scientists I'm working with are using it, and it > would be therefore useful for me to translate Pandas code to Spark... > > Isn't the goal of Spark Dataframe to allow all the features of Pandas/R > Dataframe using Spark ? > > Regards, > > Olivier. > > Le mer. 29 avr. 2015 à 21:09, Nicholas Chammas <nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> > a écrit : > >> You can check JIRA for any existing plans. If there isn't any, then feel >> free to create a JIRA and make the case there for why this would be a good >> feature to add. >> >> Nick >> >> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 7:30 AM Olivier Girardot < >> o.girar...@lateral-thoughts.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> Is there any plan to add the "shift" method from Pandas to Spark >>> Dataframe, >>> not that I think it's an easy task... >>> >>> c.f. >>> >>> http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.DataFrame.shift.html >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Olivier. >>> >>