Added summary as an alias for describe for DataFrame

prabeesh · Jul 30, 2015 · 632693d · 632693d
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diff --git a/R/pkg/NAMESPACE b/R/pkg/NAMESPACE
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ exportMethods("arrange",
               "show",
               "showDF",
               "summarize",
+              "summary",
               "take",
               "unionAll",
               "unpersist",

diff --git a/R/pkg/R/DataFrame.R b/R/pkg/R/DataFrame.R
@@ -1430,6 +1430,15 @@ setMethod("describe",
             dataFrame(sdf)
           })
 
+#' @rdname summary.DataFrame
+#' @aliases describe
+setMethod("summary",
+          signature(x = "DataFrame"),
+          function(x) {
+            describe(x)
+          })
+
+
 #' dropna
 #'
 #' Returns a new DataFrame omitting rows with null values.

diff --git a/R/pkg/R/generics.R b/R/pkg/R/generics.R
@@ -531,6 +531,10 @@ setGeneric("showDF", function(x,...) { standardGeneric("showDF") })
 #' @export
 setGeneric("summarize", function(x,...) { standardGeneric("summarize") })
 
+#' rdname summary
+#' @export
+setGeneric("summary", function(x, ...) { standardGeneric("summary") })
+
 # @rdname tojson
 # @export
 setGeneric("toJSON", function(x) { standardGeneric("toJSON") })