Based on an informal survey, users find this option easier to understand / remember.

Author: Michael Armbrust <michael@databricks.com>

Closes #16182 from marmbrus/renameRecentProgress.

(cherry picked from commit 70b2bf71)
Signed-off-by: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

Since we already include the python examples in the pyspark package, we should include the example data with it as well.

We should also include the third-party licences since we distribute their jars with the pyspark package.

## How was this patch tested?

Manually tested with python2.7 and python3.4
```sh
$ ./build/mvn -DskipTests -Phive -Phive-thriftserver -Pyarn -Pmesos clean package
$ cd python
$ python setup.py sdist
$ pip install  dist/pyspark-2.1.0.dev0.tar.gz

$ ls -1 /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyspark/data/
graphx
mllib
streaming

$ du -sh /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyspark/data/
600K    /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyspark/data/

$ ls -1  /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyspark/licenses/|head -5
LICENSE-AnchorJS.txt
LICENSE-DPark.txt
LICENSE-Mockito.txt
LICENSE-SnapTree.txt
LICENSE-antlr.txt
```

Author: Shuai Lin <linshuai2012@gmail.com>

Closes #16082 from lins05/include-data-in-pyspark-dist.

(cherry picked from commit bd9a4a5a)
Signed-off-by: Sean Owen <sowen@cloudera.com>

[SPARK-18657][SPARK-18668] Make StreamingQuery.id persists across restart and not auto-generate StreamingQuery.name

Here are the major changes in this PR.
- Added the ability to recover `StreamingQuery.id` from checkpoint location, by writing the id to `checkpointLoc/metadata`.
- Added `StreamingQuery.runId` which is unique for every query started and does not persist across restarts. This is to identify each restart of a query separately (same as earlier behavior of `id`).
- Removed auto-generation of `StreamingQuery.name`. The purpose of name was to have the ability to define an identifier across restarts, but since id is precisely that, there is no need for a auto-generated name. This means name becomes purely cosmetic, and is null by default.
- Added `runId` to `StreamingQueryListener` events and `StreamingQueryProgress`.

Implementation details
- Renamed existing `StreamExecutionMetadata` to `OffsetSeqMetadata`, and moved it to the file `OffsetSeq.scala`, because that is what this metadata is tied to. Also did some refactoring to make the code cleaner (got rid of a lot of `.json` and `.getOrElse("{}")`).
- Added the `id` as the new `StreamMetadata`.
- When a StreamingQuery is created it gets or writes the `StreamMetadata` from `checkpointLoc/metadata`.
- All internal logging in `StreamExecution` uses `(name, id, runId)` instead of just `name`

TODO
- [x] Test handling of name=null in json generation of StreamingQueryProgress
- [x] Test handling of name=null in json generation of StreamingQueryListener events
- [x] Test python API of runId

Updated unit tests and new unit tests

Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>

Closes #16113 from tdas/SPARK-18657.

(cherry picked from commit bb57bfe9)
Signed-off-by: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

As reported in the Jira, there are some weird issues with exploding Python UDFs in SparkSQL.

The following test code can reproduce it. Notice: the following test code is reported to return wrong results in the Jira. However, as I tested on master branch, it causes exception and so can't return any result.

    >>> from pyspark.sql.functions import *
    >>> from pyspark.sql.types import *
    >>>
    >>> df = spark.range(10)
    >>>
    >>> def return_range(value):
    ...   return [(i, str(i)) for i in range(value - 1, value + 1)]
    ...
    >>> range_udf = udf(return_range, ArrayType(StructType([StructField("integer_val", IntegerType()),
    ...                                                     StructField("string_val", StringType())])))
    >>>
    >>> df.select("id", explode(range_udf(df.id))).show()
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/spark/python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py", line 318, in show
        print(self._jdf.showString(n, 20))
      File "/spark/python/lib/py4j-0.10.4-src.zip/py4j/java_gateway.py", line 1133, in __call__
      File "/spark/python/pyspark/sql/utils.py", line 63, in deco
        return f(*a, **kw)
      File "/spark/python/lib/py4j-0.10.4-src.zip/py4j/protocol.py", line 319, in get_return_value py4j.protocol.Py4JJavaError: An error occurred while calling o126.showString.: java.lang.AssertionError: assertion failed
        at scala.Predef$.assert(Predef.scala:156)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.CodegenSupport$class.consume(WholeStageCodegenExec.scala:120)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.GenerateExec.consume(GenerateExec.scala:57)

The cause of this issue is, in `ExtractPythonUDFs` we insert `BatchEvalPythonExec` to run PythonUDFs in batch. `BatchEvalPythonExec` will add extra outputs (e.g., `pythonUDF0`) to original plan. In above case, the original `Range` only has one output `id`. After `ExtractPythonUDFs`, the added `BatchEvalPythonExec` has two outputs `id` and `pythonUDF0`.

Because the output of `GenerateExec` is given after analysis phase, in above case, it is the combination of `id`, i.e., the output of `Range`, and `col`. But in planning phase, we change `GenerateExec`'s child plan to `BatchEvalPythonExec` with additional output attributes.

It will cause no problem in non wholestage codegen. Because when evaluating the additional attributes are projected out the final output of `GenerateExec`.

However, as `GenerateExec` now supports wholestage codegen, the framework will input all the outputs of the child plan to `GenerateExec`. Then when consuming `GenerateExec`'s output data (i.e., calling `consume`), the number of output attributes is different to the output variables in wholestage codegen.

To solve this issue, this patch only gives the generator's output to `GenerateExec` after analysis phase. `GenerateExec`'s output is the combination of its child plan's output and the generator's output. So when we change `GenerateExec`'s child, its output is still correct.

## How was this patch tested?

Added test cases to PySpark.

Please review http://spark.apache.org/contributing.html

 before opening a pull request.

Author: Liang-Chi Hsieh <viirya@gmail.com>

Closes #16120 from viirya/fix-py-udf-with-generator.

(cherry picked from commit 3ba69b64)
Signed-off-by: Herman van Hovell <hvanhovell@databricks.com>

[SPARK-18694][SS] Add StreamingQuery.explain and exception to Python and fix StreamingQueryException (branch 2.1)

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

Backport #16125 to branch 2.1.

## How was this patch tested?

Jenkins

Author: Shixiong Zhu <shixiong@databricks.com>

Closes #16153 from zsxwing/SPARK-18694-2.1.

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

Makes `Window.unboundedPreceding` and `Window.unboundedFollowing` backward compatible.

## How was this patch tested?

Pyspark SQL unittests.

Please review http://spark.apache.org/contributing.html

 before opening a pull request.

Author: zero323 <zero323@users.noreply.github.com>

Closes #16123 from zero323/SPARK-17845-follow-up.

(cherry picked from commit a9cbfc4f)
Signed-off-by: Reynold Xin <rxin@databricks.com>

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?
In`JavaWrapper `'s destructor make Java Gateway dereference object in destructor, using `SparkContext._active_spark_context._gateway.detach`
Fixing the copying parameter bug, by moving the `copy` method from `JavaModel` to `JavaParams`

## How was this patch tested?
```scala
import random, string
from pyspark.ml.feature import StringIndexer

l = [(''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_uppercase) for _ in range(10)), ) for _ in range(int(7e5))]  # 700000 random strings of 10 characters
df = spark.createDataFrame(l, ['string'])

for i in range(50):
    indexer = StringIndexer(inputCol='string', outputCol='index')
    indexer.fit(df)
```
* Before: would keep StringIndexer strong reference, causing GC issues and is halted midway
After: garbage collection works as the object is dereferenced, and computation completes
* Mem footprint tested using profiler
* Added a parameter copy related test which was failing before.

Author: Sandeep Singh <sandeep@techaddict.me>
Author: jkbradley <joseph.kurata.bradley@gmail.com>

Closes #15843 from techaddict/SPARK-18274.

(cherry picked from commit 78bb7f80)
Signed-off-by: Joseph K. Bradley <joseph@databricks.com>

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?
added the new handleInvalid param for these transformers to Python to maintain API parity.

## How was this patch tested?
existing tests
testing is done with new doctests

Author: Sandeep Singh <sandeep@techaddict.me>

Closes #15817 from techaddict/SPARK-18366.

(cherry picked from commit fe854f2e)
Signed-off-by: Nick Pentreath <nickp@za.ibm.com>

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?
- Add StreamingQueryStatus.json
- Make it not case class (to avoid unnecessarily exposing implicit object StreamingQueryStatus, consistent with StreamingQueryProgress)
- Add StreamingQuery.status to Python
- Fix post-termination status

## How was this patch tested?
New unit tests

Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>

Closes #16075 from tdas/SPARK-18516-1.

(cherry picked from commit bc09a2b8)
Signed-off-by: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

Add python api for KMeansSummary
## How was this patch tested?

unit test added

Author: Jeff Zhang <zjffdu@apache.org>

Closes #13557 from zjffdu/SPARK-15819.

(cherry picked from commit 4c82ca86)
Signed-off-by: Yanbo Liang <ybliang8@gmail.com>

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?
make a pass through the items marked as Experimental or DeveloperApi and see if any are stable enough to be unmarked. Also check for items marked final or sealed to see if they are stable enough to be opened up as APIs.

Some discussions in the jira: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-18319



## How was this patch tested?
existing ut

Author: Yuhao <yuhao.yang@intel.com>
Author: Yuhao Yang <hhbyyh@gmail.com>

Closes #15972 from hhbyyh/experimental21.

(cherry picked from commit 9b670bca)
Signed-off-by: Joseph K. Bradley <joseph@databricks.com>

This PR separates the status of a `StreamingQuery` into two separate APIs:
 - `status` - describes the status of a `StreamingQuery` at this moment, including what phase of processing is currently happening and if data is available.
 - `recentProgress` - an array of statistics about the most recent microbatches that have executed.

A recent progress contains the following information:
```
{
  "id" : "2be8670a-fce1-4859-a530-748f29553bb6",
  "name" : "query-29",
  "timestamp" : 1479705392724,
  "inputRowsPerSecond" : 230.76923076923077,
  "processedRowsPerSecond" : 10.869565217391303,
  "durationMs" : {
    "triggerExecution" : 276,
    "queryPlanning" : 3,
    "getBatch" : 5,
    "getOffset" : 3,
    "addBatch" : 234,
    "walCommit" : 30
  },
  "currentWatermark" : 0,
  "stateOperators" : [ ],
  "sources" : [ {
    "description" : "KafkaSource[Subscribe[topic-14]]",
    "startOffset" : {
      "topic-14" : {
        "2" : 0,
        "4" : 1,
        "1" : 0,
        "3" : 0,
        "0" : 0
      }
    },
    "endOffset" : {
      "topic-14" : {
        "2" : 1,
        "4" : 2,
        "1" : 0,
        "3" : 0,
        "0" : 1
      }
    },
    "numRecords" : 3,
    "inputRowsPerSecond" : 230.76923076923077,
    "processedRowsPerSecond" : 10.869565217391303
  } ]
}
```

Additionally, in order to make it possible to correlate progress updates across restarts, we change the `id` field from an integer that is unique with in the JVM to a `UUID` that is globally unique.

Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>
Author: Michael Armbrust <michael@databricks.com>

Closes #15954 from marmbrus/queryProgress.

(cherry picked from commit c3d08e2f)
Signed-off-by: Michael Armbrust <michael@databricks.com>

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

This PR fixes SparkContext broken state in which it may fall if spark driver get crashed or killed by OOM.

## How was this patch tested?

1. Start SparkContext;
2. Find Spark driver process and `kill -9` it;
3. Call `sc.stop()`;
4. Create new SparkContext after that;

Without this patch you will crash on step 3 and won't be able to do step 4 without manual reset private attibutes or IPython notebook / shell restart.

Author: Alexander Shorin <kxepal@apache.org>

Closes #15961 from kxepal/18523-make-spark-context-stop-more-reliable.

(cherry picked from commit 71352c94)
Signed-off-by: Reynold Xin <rxin@databricks.com>

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?
Remove deprecated methods for ML.

## How was this patch tested?
Existing tests.

Author: Yanbo Liang <ybliang8@gmail.com>

Closes #15913 from yanboliang/spark-18481.

(cherry picked from commit c4a7eef0)
Signed-off-by: Yanbo Liang <ybliang8@gmail.com>

[SPARK-18447][DOCS] Fix the markdown for `Note:`/`NOTE:`/`Note that` across Python API documentation

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

It seems in Python, there are

- `Note:`
- `NOTE:`
- `Note that`
- `.. note::`

This PR proposes to fix those to `.. note::` to be consistent.

**Before**

<img width="567" alt="2016-11-21 1 18 49" src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/6477701/20464305/85144c86-af88-11e6-8ee9-90f584dd856c.png">

<img width="617" alt="2016-11-21 12 42 43" src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/6477701/20464263/27be5022-af88-11e6-8577-4bbca7cdf36c.png">

**After**

<img width="554" alt="2016-11-21 1 18 42" src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/6477701/20464306/8fe48932-af88-11e6-83e1-fc3cbf74407d.png">

<img width="628" alt="2016-11-21 12 42 51" src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/6477701/20464264/2d3e156e-af88-11e6-93f3-cab8d8d02983.png

">

## How was this patch tested?

The notes were found via

```bash
grep -r "Note: " .
grep -r "NOTE: " .
grep -r "Note that " .
```

And then fixed one by one comparing with API documentation.

After that, manually tested via `make html` under `./python/docs`.

Author: hyukjinkwon <gurwls223@gmail.com>

Closes #15947 from HyukjinKwon/SPARK-18447.

(cherry picked from commit 933a6548)
Signed-off-by: Sean Owen <sowen@cloudera.com>

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

This PR adds two of the newly added methods of `Dataset`s to Python:
`withWatermark` and `checkpoint`

## How was this patch tested?

Doc tests

Author: Burak Yavuz <brkyvz@gmail.com>

Closes #15921 from brkyvz/py-watermark.

(cherry picked from commit 97a8239a)
Signed-off-by: Shixiong Zhu <shixiong@databricks.com>

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

Expose RDD's localCheckpoint() and associated functions in PySpark.

## How was this patch tested?

I added a UnitTest in python/pyspark/tests.py which passes.

I certify that this is my original work, and I license it to the project under the project's open source license.

Gabriel HUANG
Developer at Cardabel (http://cardabel.com/)

Author: Gabriel Huang <gabi.xiaohuang@gmail.com>

Closes #15811 from gabrielhuang/pyspark-localcheckpoint.

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

Add model summary APIs for `GaussianMixtureModel` and `BisectingKMeansModel` in pyspark.

## How was this patch tested?

Unit tests.

Author: sethah <seth.hendrickson16@gmail.com>

Closes #15777 from sethah/pyspark_cluster_summaries.

(cherry picked from commit e811fbf9)
Signed-off-by: Yanbo Liang <ybliang8@gmail.com>

[SPARK-18445][BUILD][DOCS] Fix the markdown for `Note:`/`NOTE:`/`Note that`/`'''Note:'''` across Scala/Java API documentation

It seems in Scala/Java,

- `Note:`
- `NOTE:`
- `Note that`
- `'''Note:'''`
- `note`

This PR proposes to fix those to `note` to be consistent.

**Before**

- Scala
  ![2016-11-17 6 16 39](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/6477701/20383180/1a7aed8c-acf2-11e6-9611-5eaf6d52c2e0.png)

- Java
  ![2016-11-17 6 14 41](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/6477701/20383096/c8ffc680-acf1-11e6-914a-33460bf1401d.png)

**After**

- Scala
  ![2016-11-17 6 16 44](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/6477701/20383167/09940490-acf2-11e6-937a-0d5e1dc2cadf.png)

- Java
  ![2016-11-17 6 13 39](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/6477701/20383132/e7c2a57e-acf1-11e6-9c47-b849674d4d88.png

)

The notes were found via

```bash
grep -r "NOTE: " . | \ # Note:|NOTE:|Note that|'''Note:'''
grep -v "// NOTE: " | \  # starting with // does not appear in API documentation.
grep -E '.scala|.java' | \ # java/scala files
grep -v Suite | \ # exclude tests
grep -v Test | \ # exclude tests
grep -e 'org.apache.spark.api.java' \ # packages appear in API documenation
-e 'org.apache.spark.api.java.function' \ # note that this is a regular expression. So actual matches were mostly `org/apache/spark/api/java/functions ...`
-e 'org.apache.spark.api.r' \
...
```

```bash
grep -r "Note that " . | \ # Note:|NOTE:|Note that|'''Note:'''
grep -v "// Note that " | \  # starting with // does not appear in API documentation.
grep -E '.scala|.java' | \ # java/scala files
grep -v Suite | \ # exclude tests
grep -v Test | \ # exclude tests
grep -e 'org.apache.spark.api.java' \ # packages appear in API documenation
-e 'org.apache.spark.api.java.function' \
-e 'org.apache.spark.api.r' \
...
```

```bash
grep -r "Note: " . | \ # Note:|NOTE:|Note that|'''Note:'''
grep -v "// Note: " | \  # starting with // does not appear in API documentation.
grep -E '.scala|.java' | \ # java/scala files
grep -v Suite | \ # exclude tests
grep -v Test | \ # exclude tests
grep -e 'org.apache.spark.api.java' \ # packages appear in API documenation
-e 'org.apache.spark.api.java.function' \
-e 'org.apache.spark.api.r' \
...
```

```bash
grep -r "'''Note:'''" . | \ # Note:|NOTE:|Note that|'''Note:'''
grep -v "// '''Note:''' " | \  # starting with // does not appear in API documentation.
grep -E '.scala|.java' | \ # java/scala files
grep -v Suite | \ # exclude tests
grep -v Test | \ # exclude tests
grep -e 'org.apache.spark.api.java' \ # packages appear in API documenation
-e 'org.apache.spark.api.java.function' \
-e 'org.apache.spark.api.r' \
...
```

And then fixed one by one comparing with API documentation/access modifiers.

After that, manually tested via `jekyll build`.

Author: hyukjinkwon <gurwls223@gmail.com>

Closes #15889 from HyukjinKwon/SPARK-18437.

(cherry picked from commit d5b1d5fc)
Signed-off-by: Sean Owen <sowen@cloudera.com>

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

I found the documentation for the sample method to be confusing, this adds more clarification across all languages.

- [x] Scala
- [x] Python
- [x] R
- [x] RDD Scala
- [ ] RDD Python with SEED
- [X] RDD Java
- [x] RDD Java with SEED
- [x] RDD Python

## How was this patch tested?

NA

Please review https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPARK/Contributing+to+Spark

 before opening a pull request.

Author: anabranch <wac.chambers@gmail.com>
Author: Bill Chambers <bill@databricks.com>

Closes #15815 from anabranch/SPARK-18365.

(cherry picked from commit 49b6f456)
Signed-off-by: Sean Owen <sowen@cloudera.com>

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

This PR aims to provide a pip installable PySpark package. This does a bunch of work to copy the jars over and package them with the Python code (to prevent challenges from trying to use different versions of the Python code with different versions of the JAR). It does not currently publish to PyPI but that is the natural follow up (SPARK-18129).

Done:
- pip installable on conda [manual tested]
- setup.py installed on a non-pip managed system (RHEL) with YARN [manual tested]
- Automated testing of this (virtualenv)
- packaging and signing with release-build*

Possible follow up work:
- release-build update to publish to PyPI (SPARK-18128)
- figure out who owns the pyspark package name on prod PyPI (is it someone with in the project or should we ask PyPI or should we choose a different name to publish with like ApachePySpark?)
- Windows support and or testing ( SPARK-18136 )
- investigate details of wheel caching and see if we can avoid cleaning the wheel cache during our test
- consider how we want to number our dev/snapshot versions

Explicitly out of scope:
- Using pip installed PySpark to start a standalone cluster
- Using pip installed PySpark for non-Python Spark programs

*I've done some work to test release-build locally but as a non-committer I've just done local testing.
## How was this patch tested?

Automated testing with virtualenv, manual testing with conda, a system wide install, and YARN integration.

release-build changes tested locally as a non-committer (no testing of upload artifacts to Apache staging websites)

Author: Holden Karau <holden@us.ibm.com>
Author: Juliet Hougland <juliet@cloudera.com>
Author: Juliet Hougland <not@myemail.com>

Closes #15659 from holdenk/SPARK-1267-pip-install-pyspark.

[SPARK-18459][SPARK-18460][STRUCTUREDSTREAMING] Rename triggerId to batchId and add triggerDetails to json in StreamingQueryStatus

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

SPARK-18459: triggerId seems like a number that should be increasing with each trigger, whether or not there is data in it. However, actually, triggerId increases only where there is a batch of data in a trigger. So its better to rename it to batchId.

SPARK-18460: triggerDetails was missing from json representation. Fixed it.

## How was this patch tested?
Updated existing unit tests.

Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>

Closes #15895 from tdas/SPARK-18459.

(cherry picked from commit 0048ce7c)
Signed-off-by: Shixiong Zhu <shixiong@databricks.com>

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

Currently the error message is correct but doesn't provide additional hint to new users. It would be better to hint related configuration to users in the message.

## How was this patch tested?

N/A because it only changes error message.

Please review https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPARK/Contributing+to+Spark

 before opening a pull request.

Author: Liang-Chi Hsieh <viirya@gmail.com>

Closes #15822 from viirya/minor-pyspark-worker-errmsg.

(cherry picked from commit cc86fcd0)
Signed-off-by: Sean Owen <sowen@cloudera.com>

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

Currently we use java serialization for the WAL that stores the offsets contained in each batch. This has two main issues:
It can break across spark releases (though this is not the only thing preventing us from upgrading a running query)
It is unnecessarily opaque to the user.
I'd propose we require offsets to provide a user readable serialization and use that instead. JSON is probably a good option.
## How was this patch tested?

Tests were added for KafkaSourceOffset in [KafkaSourceOffsetSuite](external/kafka-0-10-sql/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/kafka010/KafkaSourceOffsetSuite.scala) and for LongOffset in [OffsetSuite](sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/streaming/OffsetSuite.scala)

Please review https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPARK/Contributing+to+Spark

 before opening a pull request.

zsxwing marmbrus

Author: Tyson Condie <tcondie@gmail.com>
Author: Tyson Condie <tcondie@clash.local>

Closes #15626 from tcondie/spark-8360.

(cherry picked from commit 3f62e1b5)
Signed-off-by: Shixiong Zhu <shixiong@databricks.com>

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

Gradient Boosted Tree in R.
With a few minor improvements to RandomForest in R.

Since this is relatively isolated I'd like to target this for branch-2.1

## How was this patch tested?

manual tests, unit tests

Author: Felix Cheung <felixcheung_m@hotmail.com>

Closes #15746 from felixcheung/rgbt.

(cherry picked from commit 55964c15)
Signed-off-by: Felix Cheung <felixcheung@apache.org>

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

This PR proposes to improve documentation and fix some descriptions equivalent to several minor fixes identified in https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/15677

Also, this suggests to change `Note:` and `NOTE:` to `.. note::` consistently with the others which marks up pretty.

## How was this patch tested?

Jenkins tests and manually.

For PySpark, `Note:` and `NOTE:` to `.. note::` make the document as below:

**From**

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Author: hyukjinkwon <gurwls223@gmail.com>

Closes #15765 from HyukjinKwon/minor-function-doc.

(cherry picked from commit 15d39268)
Signed-off-by: Felix Cheung <felixcheung@apache.org>

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

minor doc update that should go to master & branch-2.1

## How was this patch tested?

manual

Author: Felix Cheung <felixcheung_m@hotmail.com>

Closes #15747 from felixcheung/pySPARK-14393.

(cherry picked from commit a08463b1)
Signed-off-by: Felix Cheung <felixcheung@apache.org>

[SPARK-18138][DOCS] Document that Java 7, Python 2.6, Scala 2.10, Hadoop < 2.6 are deprecated in Spark 2.1.0

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

Document that Java 7, Python 2.6, Scala 2.10, Hadoop < 2.6 are deprecated in Spark 2.1.0. This does not actually implement any of the change in SPARK-18138, just peppers the documentation with notices about it.

## How was this patch tested?

Doc build

Author: Sean Owen <sowen@cloudera.com>

Closes #15733 from srowen/SPARK-18138.

(cherry picked from commit dc4c6009)
Signed-off-by: Reynold Xin <rxin@databricks.com>

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?
Add missing 'subsamplingRate' of pyspark GBTClassifier

## How was this patch tested?
existing tests

Author: Zheng RuiFeng <ruifengz@foxmail.com>

Closes #15692 from zhengruifeng/gbt_subsamplingRate.

(cherry picked from commit 9dc9f9a5)
Signed-off-by: Yanbo Liang <ybliang8@gmail.com>

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?
- Renamed kbest to numTopFeatures
- Renamed alpha to fpr
- Added missing Since annotations
- Doc cleanups
## How was this patch tested?

Added new standardized unit tests for spark.ml.
Improved existing unit test coverage a bit.

Author: Joseph K. Bradley <joseph@databricks.com>

Closes #15647 from jkbradley/chisqselector-follow-ups.

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

This PR proposes to add `to_json` function in contrast with `from_json` in Scala, Java and Python.

It'd be useful if we can convert a same column from/to json. Also, some datasources do not support nested types. If we are forced to save a dataframe into those data sources, we might be able to work around by this function.

The usage is as below:

``` scala
val df = Seq(Tuple1(Tuple1(1))).toDF("a")
df.select(to_json($"a").as("json")).show()
```

``` bash
+--------+
|    json|
+--------+
|{"_1":1}|
+--------+
```
## How was this patch tested?

Unit tests in `JsonFunctionsSuite` and `JsonExpressionsSuite`.

Author: hyukjinkwon <gurwls223@gmail.com>

Closes #15354 from HyukjinKwon/SPARK-17764.

[SPARK-18110][PYTHON][ML] add missing parameter in Python for RandomForest regression and classification

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

Add subsmaplingRate to randomForestClassifier
Add varianceCol to randomForestRegressor
In Python

## How was this patch tested?

manual tests

Author: Felix Cheung <felixcheung_m@hotmail.com>

Closes #15638 from felixcheung/pyrandomforest.

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

This PR is an enhancement of PR with commit ID:57dc326b.
NaN is a special type of value which is commonly seen as invalid. But We find that there are certain cases where NaN are also valuable, thus need special handling. We provided user when dealing NaN values with 3 options, to either reserve an extra bucket for NaN values, or remove the NaN values, or report an error, by setting handleNaN "keep", "skip", or "error"(default) respectively.

'''Before:
val bucketizer: Bucketizer = new Bucketizer()
          .setInputCol("feature")
          .setOutputCol("result")
          .setSplits(splits)
'''After:
val bucketizer: Bucketizer = new Bucketizer()
          .setInputCol("feature")
          .setOutputCol("result")
          .setSplits(splits)
          .setHandleNaN("keep")

## How was this patch tested?
Tests added in QuantileDiscretizerSuite, BucketizerSuite and DataFrameStatSuite

Signed-off-by: VinceShieh <vincent.xieintel.com>

Author: VinceShieh <vincent.xie@intel.com>
Author: Vincent Xie <vincent.xie@intel.com>
Author: Joseph K. Bradley <joseph@databricks.com>

Closes #15428 from VinceShieh/spark-17219_followup.

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

API and programming guide doc changes for Scala, Python and R.

## How was this patch tested?

manual test

Author: Felix Cheung <felixcheung_m@hotmail.com>

Closes #15629 from felixcheung/jsondoc.

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

StreamingQueryStatus exposed through StreamingQueryListener often needs to be recorded (similar to SparkListener events). This PR adds `.json` and `.prettyJson` to `StreamingQueryStatus`, `SourceStatus` and `SinkStatus`.

## How was this patch tested?
New unit tests

Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>

Closes #15476 from tdas/SPARK-17926.

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

1) Upgrade the Py4J version on the Java side
2) Update the py4j src zip file we bundle with Spark

## How was this patch tested?

Existing doctests & unit tests pass

Author: Jagadeesan <as2@us.ibm.com>

Closes #15514 from jagadeesanas2/SPARK-17960.

[SPARK-17817] [PYSPARK] [FOLLOWUP] PySpark RDD Repartitioning Results in Highly Skewed Partition Sizes

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

This change is a followup for #15389 which calls `_to_java_object_rdd()` to solve this issue. Due to the concern of the possible expensive cost of the call, we can choose to decrease the batch size to solve this issue too.

Simple benchmark:

    import time
    num_partitions = 20000
    a = sc.parallelize(range(int(1e6)), 2)
    start = time.time()
    l = a.repartition(num_partitions).glom().map(len).collect()
    end = time.time()
    print(end - start)

Before: 419.447577953
_to_java_object_rdd(): 421.916361094
decreasing the batch size: 423.712255955

## How was this patch tested?

Jenkins tests.

Author: Liang-Chi Hsieh <viirya@gmail.com>

Closes #15445 from viirya/repartition-batch-size.