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authorFelix Cheung <felixcheung_m@hotmail.com>2016-09-02 10:28:37 -0700
committerShivaram Venkataraman <shivaram@cs.berkeley.edu>2016-09-02 10:28:37 -0700
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[SPARKR][DOC] regexp_extract should doc that it returns empty string when match fails
## What changes were proposed in this pull request? Doc change - see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-16324 ## How was this patch tested? manual check Author: Felix Cheung <felixcheung_m@hotmail.com> Closes #14934 from felixcheung/regexpextractdoc.
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diff --git a/R/pkg/R/functions.R b/R/pkg/R/functions.R
index dbf8dd89a2..369b1d00d9 100644
--- a/R/pkg/R/functions.R
+++ b/R/pkg/R/functions.R
@@ -2876,7 +2876,8 @@ setMethod("randn", signature(seed = "numeric"),
#' regexp_extract
#'
-#' Extract a specific(idx) group identified by a java regex, from the specified string column.
+#' Extract a specific \code{idx} group identified by a Java regex, from the specified string column.
+#' If the regex did not match, or the specified group did not match, an empty string is returned.
#'
#' @param x a string Column.
#' @param pattern a regular expression.