From 632693df489663750f028f2c089d205ebac1926f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hossein <hossein@databricks.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 14:29:51 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Added summary as an alias for describe for DataFrame

---
 R/pkg/NAMESPACE     | 1 +
 R/pkg/R/DataFrame.R | 9 +++++++++
 R/pkg/R/generics.R  | 4 ++++
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/R/pkg/NAMESPACE b/R/pkg/NAMESPACE
index 7f7a8a2e4de24..d5eb1d21de9ef 100644
--- 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
index f4c93d3c7dd67..149dd7ae5df46 100644
--- 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
index a3a121058e165..36dd22ff395ca 100644
--- 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") })