Spark - “sbt package” - “value $ is not a member of StringContext” - Missing Scala plugin?

Question

When running \"sbt package\" from the command line for a small Spark Scala application, I\'m getting the \"value $ is not a member of StringContext\" compilation error on the fo

Answer 1

You need to make sure you import sqlContext.implicits._

This gets you implicit class StringToColumn extends AnyRef

Which is commented as:

Converts $"col name" into an Column.