Spark Can we add column to dataframe

Question

Can we add column to dataframe? If yes, please share the code.

Answer 1

Yes we can add a column using withColumn with the function as shown below for your reference.

val sqlContext = new SQLContext(sc)

import sqlContext.implicits._ // for `toDF` and $""

import org.apache.spark.sql.functions._ // for `when`


val df = sc.parallelize(Seq((4, "blah", 2), (2, "", 3), (56, "foo", 3), (100, null, 5)))

    .toDF("A", "B", "C")

val newDf = df.withColumn("D", when($"B".isNull or $"B" === "", 0).otherwise(1))

newDf.show() shows

+---+----+---+---+

| A| B| C| D|

+---+----+---+---+

| 4|blah| 2| 1|

| 2| | 3| 0|

| 56| foo| 3| 1|

|100|null| 5| 0|

+---+----+---+---+

Answer 2

Yes we can add columns to the existing data frame in Spark

import pandas as pd

data = {'Name': ['Indis', 'Sachin', 'Rohit', 'Dhoni'],

        'Height': [5.1, 6.2, 5.1, 5.2],

        'Qualification': ['Team', 'Opener', 'Hitman', 'Keeper']}  

df = pd.DataFrame(data)

address = ['India', 'Mumbai', 'Chennai', 'Patna']

df['Address'] = address

df

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