polars first

For dataframe.

Show only the first number of rows or create a first expression

warning This command requires a plugin The polars first command resides in the polars plugin. To use this command, you must install and register nu_plugin_polars. See the Plugins chapter in the book for more information.

Command Type

plugin

Signature

> polars first {flags} (rows)

Parameters

  • rows: Starting from the front, the number of rows to return.

Input/output types:

input output
polars_expression polars_expression
polars_selector polars_expression
polars_dataframe polars_dataframe
polars_lazyframe polars_lazyframe
polars_group_by polars_lazyframe

Examples

Return the first row of a dataframe

> [[a b]; [1 2] [3 4]] | polars into-df | polars first
╭───┬───┬───╮
│ # │ a │ b │
├───┼───┼───┤
│ 0 │ 1 │ 2 │
╰───┴───┴───╯

Return the first two rows of a dataframe

> [[a b]; [1 2] [3 4]] | polars into-df | polars first 2
╭───┬───┬───╮
│ # │ a │ b │
├───┼───┼───┤
│ 0 │ 1 │ 2 │
│ 1 │ 3 │ 4 │
╰───┴───┴───╯

Creates a first expression from a column

> polars col a | polars first

Aggregate the first values in the group.

> [[a b c d]; [1 0.5 true Apple] [2 0.5 true Orange] [2 4 true Apple] [3 10 false Apple] [4 13 false Banana] [5 14 true Banana]] | polars into-df -s {a: u8, b: f32, c: bool, d: str} | polars group-by d | polars first | polars sort-by [a] | polars collect
╭───┬────────┬───┬───────┬───────╮
│ # │   d    │ a │   b   │   c   │
├───┼────────┼───┼───────┼───────┤
│ 0 │ Apple  │ 1 │  0.50 │ true  │
│ 1 │ Orange │ 2 │  0.50 │ true  │
│ 2 │ Banana │ 4 │ 13.00 │ false │
╰───┴────────┴───┴───────┴───────╯

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