Sparkr write DF as file csv/txt

Question

Hi I'm working on sparkR in yarn mode.

I need to write a sparkr df to a csv/txt file.

I saw that there is write.df but it writes parquet files.

I tried to do this things

RdataFrame<-collect(SparkRDF)
write.table(RdataFrame, ..)

But I got many WARN and some ERROR on contextCleaner.

Is there any way ?

Answer 1

Spark 2.0+

You can use write.text function:

Save the content of the SparkDataFrame in a text file at the specified path. The SparkDataFrame must have only one column of string type with the name "value". Each row becomes a new line in the output file.

write.text(df, path)

or write.df with built-in SparkR csv writer:

write.df(df, path, source="csv")

Spark 1.x

You can use spark-csv package:

write.df(SparkRDF, "foo.csv", "com.databricks.spark.csv", ...)

It can be added for example with packages argument to SparkR / spark-submit:

sparkR --packages com.databricks:spark-csv_2.10:1.3.0 # For Scala 2.10
sparkR --packages com.databricks:spark-csv_2.11:1.3.0 # For Scala 2.11

For other options see the official documentation