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rx_get_var_names

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Usage

revoscalepy.rx_get_var_names(data)

Description

Read the variable names for data source or data frame

Arguments

data

an RxDataSource object, a character string specifying the “.xdf” file, or a data frame. If a Spark compute context is being used, this argument may also be an RxHiveData, RxOrcData, RxParquetData or RxSparkDataFrame object or a Spark data frame object from pyspark.sql.DataFrame.

Returns

list of strings containing the names of the variables in the data source or data frame.

See also

rx_data_step, rx_get_info, rx_get_var_info.

Example

import os
from revoscalepy import RxOptions, RxXdfData, rx_get_var_names

sample_data_path = RxOptions.get_option("sampleDataDir")
claims_ds = RxXdfData(os.path.join(sample_data_path, "claims.xdf"))
info = rx_get_var_names(claims_ds)
print(info)

Output:

RowNum age car.age type cost number