This should work for non-numerical data as well - can you please elaborate
on the error you are getting and provide a code sample? As a preliminary
hint, you can "aggregate" text values using *max*.
df.groupBy("someCol")
.pivot("anotherCol")
.agg(max($"textCol"))
Thanks,
Kevin
On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 2:02 PM, Darshan Pandya <darshanpan...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to transpose some data using groupBy pivot aggr as mentioned
> in this blog
> https://databricks.com/blog/2016/02/09/reshaping-data-
> with-pivot-in-apache-spark.html
>
> But this works only for numerical data.
> Any hints for doing the same thing for non numerical data ?
>
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Darshan
>
>
