Looks like the fix went in after 1.5.1 was released.
You may verify using master branch build.
Cheers
> On Oct 13, 2015, at 12:21 AM, Umesh Kacha <umesh.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Ted, thanks much I tried using percentile_approx in Spark-shell like you
> mentioned it works using 1.5.1 but it doesn't compile in Java using 1.5.1
> maven libraries it still complains same that callUdf can have string and
> column types only. Please guide.
>
>> On Oct 13, 2015 12:34 AM, "Ted Yu" <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> SQL context available as sqlContext.
>>
>> scala> val df = Seq(("id1", 1), ("id2", 4), ("id3", 5)).toDF("id", "value")
>> df: org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame = [id: string, value: int]
>>
>> scala> df.select(callUDF("percentile_approx",col("value"), lit(0.25))).show()
>> +------------------------------+
>> |'percentile_approx(value,0.25)|
>> +------------------------------+
>> | 1.0|
>> +------------------------------+
>>
>> Can you upgrade to 1.5.1 ?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Umesh Kacha <umesh.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Sorry forgot to tell that I am using Spark 1.4.1 as callUdf is available in
>>> Spark 1.4.0 as per JAvadocx
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:22 AM, Umesh Kacha <umesh.ka...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi Ted thanks much for the detailed answer and appreciate your efforts. Do
>>>> we need to register Hive UDFs?
>>>>
>>>> sqlContext.udf.register("percentile_approx");???//is it valid?
>>>>
>>>> I am calling Hive UDF percentile_approx in the following manner which
>>>> gives compilation error
>>>>
>>>> df.select("col1").groupby("col1").agg(callUdf("percentile_approx",col("col1"),lit(0.25)));//compile
>>>> error
>>>>
>>>> //compile error because callUdf() takes String and Column* as arguments.
>>>>
>>>> Please guide. Thanks much.
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:44 PM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Using spark-shell, I did the following exercise (master branch) :
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> SQL context available as sqlContext.
>>>>>
>>>>> scala> val df = Seq(("id1", 1), ("id2", 4), ("id3", 5)).toDF("id",
>>>>> "value")
>>>>> df: org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame = [id: string, value: int]
>>>>>
>>>>> scala> sqlContext.udf.register("simpleUDF", (v: Int, cnst: Int) => v * v
>>>>> + cnst)
>>>>> res0: org.apache.spark.sql.UserDefinedFunction =
>>>>> UserDefinedFunction(<function2>,IntegerType,List())
>>>>>
>>>>> scala> df.select($"id", callUDF("simpleUDF", $"value", lit(25))).show()
>>>>> +---+--------------------+
>>>>> | id|'simpleUDF(value,25)|
>>>>> +---+--------------------+
>>>>> |id1| 26|
>>>>> |id2| 41|
>>>>> |id3| 50|
>>>>> +---+--------------------+
>>>>>
>>>>> Which Spark release are you using ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you pastebin the full stack trace where you got the error ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Umesh Kacha <umesh.ka...@gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> I have a doubt Michael I tried to use callUDF in the following code it
>>>>>> does not work.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> sourceFrame.agg(callUdf("percentile_approx",col("myCol"),lit(0.25)))
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Above code does not compile because callUdf() takes only two arguments
>>>>>> function name in String and Column class type. Please guide.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 1:29 AM, Umesh Kacha <umesh.ka...@gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> thanks much Michael let me try.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 1:20 AM, Michael Armbrust
>>>>>>>> <mich...@databricks.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> This is confusing because I made a typo...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> callUDF("percentile_approx", col("mycol"), lit(0.25))
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The first argument is the name of the UDF, all other arguments need to
>>>>>>>> be columns that are passed in as arguments. lit is just saying to
>>>>>>>> make a literal column that always has the value 0.25.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:16 PM, <saif.a.ell...@wellsfargo.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Yes but I mean, this is rather curious. How is def lit(literal:Any)
>>>>>>>>> --> becomes a percentile function lit(25)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks for clarification
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Saif
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> From: Umesh Kacha [mailto:umesh.ka...@gmail.com]
>>>>>>>>> Sent: Friday, October 09, 2015 4:10 PM
>>>>>>>>> To: Ellafi, Saif A.
>>>>>>>>> Cc: Michael Armbrust; user
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: How to calculate percentile of a column of DataFrame?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I found it in 1.3 documentation lit says something else not percent
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> public static Column lit(Object literal)
>>>>>>>>> Creates a Column of literal value.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The passed in object is returned directly if it is already a Column.
>>>>>>>>> If the object is a Scala Symbol, it is converted into a Column also.
>>>>>>>>> Otherwise, a new Column is created to represent the literal value.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 12:39 AM, <saif.a.ell...@wellsfargo.com>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Where can we find other available functions such as lit() ? I can’t
>>>>>>>>> find lit in the api.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> From: Michael Armbrust [mailto:mich...@databricks.com]
>>>>>>>>> Sent: Friday, October 09, 2015 4:04 PM
>>>>>>>>> To: unk1102
>>>>>>>>> Cc: user
>>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: How to calculate percentile of a column of DataFrame?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You can use callUDF(col("mycol"), lit(0.25)) to call hive UDFs from
>>>>>>>>> dataframes.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:01 PM, unk1102 <umesh.ka...@gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi how to calculate percentile of a column in a DataFrame? I cant
>>>>>>>>> find any
>>>>>>>>> percentile_approx function in Spark aggregation functions. For e.g.
>>>>>>>>> in Hive
>>>>>>>>> we have percentile_approx and we can use it in the following way
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> hiveContext.sql("select percentile_approx("mycol",0.25) from myTable);
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I can see ntile function but not sure how it is gonna give results
>>>>>>>>> same as
>>>>>>>>> above query please guide.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
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