How to convert column with string type to int form in pyspark data frame?
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I have dataframe in pyspark. Some of its numerical columns contain nan
so when I am reading the data and checking for the schema of dataframe, those columns will have string
type.
How I can change them to int type. I replaced the nan
values with 0 and again checked the schema, but then also it's showing the string type for those columns.I am following the below code:
data_df = sqlContext.read.format("csv").load('data.csv',header=True, inferSchema="true")
data_df.printSchema()
data_df = data_df.fillna(0)
data_df.printSchema()
here columns Plays
and drafts
containing integer values but because of nan
present in these columns, they are treated as string type.
Python Solutions
Solution 1 - Python
from pyspark.sql.types import IntegerType
data_df = data_df.withColumn("Plays", data_df["Plays"].cast(IntegerType()))
data_df = data_df.withColumn("drafts", data_df["drafts"].cast(IntegerType()))
You can run loop for each column but this is the simplest way to convert string column into integer.
Solution 2 - Python
You could use cast
(as int) after replacing NaN
with 0
,
data_df = df.withColumn("Plays", df.call_time.cast('float'))
Solution 3 - Python
Another way to do it is using the StructField if you have multiple fields that needs to be modified.
Ex:
from pyspark.sql.types import StructField,IntegerType, StructType,StringType
newDF=[StructField('CLICK_FLG',IntegerType(),True),
StructField('OPEN_FLG',IntegerType(),True),
StructField('I1_GNDR_CODE',StringType(),True),
StructField('TRW_INCOME_CD_V4',StringType(),True),
StructField('ASIAN_CD',IntegerType(),True),
StructField('I1_INDIV_HHLD_STATUS_CODE',IntegerType(),True)
]
finalStruct=StructType(fields=newDF)
df=spark.read.csv('ctor.csv',schema=finalStruct)
Output:
Before
root
|-- CLICK_FLG: string (nullable = true)
|-- OPEN_FLG: string (nullable = true)
|-- I1_GNDR_CODE: string (nullable = true)
|-- TRW_INCOME_CD_V4: string (nullable = true)
|-- ASIAN_CD: integer (nullable = true)
|-- I1_INDIV_HHLD_STATUS_CODE: string (nullable = true)
After:
root
|-- CLICK_FLG: integer (nullable = true)
|-- OPEN_FLG: integer (nullable = true)
|-- I1_GNDR_CODE: string (nullable = true)
|-- TRW_INCOME_CD_V4: string (nullable = true)
|-- ASIAN_CD: integer (nullable = true)
|-- I1_INDIV_HHLD_STATUS_CODE: integer (nullable = true)
This is slightly a long procedure to cast , but the advantage is that all the required fields can be done.
It is to be noted that if only the required fields are assigned the data type, then the resultant dataframe will contain only those fields which are changed.