Spark SQL: apply aggregate functions to a list of columns

Question

Is there a way to apply an aggregate function to all (or a list of) columns of a dataframe, when doing a groupBy? In other words, is there a way to avoid doing

Answer 1

Another example of the same concept - but say - you have 2 different columns - and you want to apply different agg functions to each of them i.e

f.groupBy("col1").agg(sum("col2").alias("col2"), avg("col3").alias("col3"), ...)

Here is the way to achieve it - though I do not yet know how to add the alias in this case

See the example below - Using Maps

val Claim1 = StructType(Seq(StructField("pid", StringType, true),StructField("diag1", StringType, true),StructField("diag2", StringType, true), StructField("allowed", IntegerType, true), StructField("allowed1", IntegerType, true)))
val claimsData1 = Seq(("PID1", "diag1", "diag2", 100, 200), ("PID1", "diag2", "diag3", 300, 600), ("PID1", "diag1", "diag5", 340, 680), ("PID2", "diag3", "diag4", 245, 490), ("PID2", "diag2", "diag1", 124, 248))

val claimRDD1 = sc.parallelize(claimsData1)
val claimRDDRow1 = claimRDD1.map(p => Row(p._1, p._2, p._3, p._4, p._5))
val claimRDD2DF1 = sqlContext.createDataFrame(claimRDDRow1, Claim1)

val l = List("allowed", "allowed1")
val exprs = l.map((_ -> "sum")).toMap
claimRDD2DF1.groupBy("pid").agg(exprs) show false
val exprs = Map("allowed" -> "sum", "allowed1" -> "avg")

claimRDD2DF1.groupBy("pid").agg(exprs) show false