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

You can use the col function instead just import it like this :

import org.apache.spark.sql.functions.col

And then change the $"column" to col("column")

Hope it helps

• @Apurva's answer initially worked for me in that the error vanished from IntelliJ
• But then it resulted in "Could not find implicit value for spark" during sbt compile phase

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I found a strange work-around by importing spark.implicits._ from SparkSession referenced from DataFrame instead of one obtained by getOrCreate

import df.sparkSession.implicits._

where df is a DataFrame

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This could be because my code was placed inside a case class that received an implicit val spark: SparkSession parameter; but I'm not really sure as to why this fix worked for me

Add this.. it will work

val spark = SparkSession.builder().getOrCreate()    
import spark.implicits._ // << add this