Scala Spark DataFrame : dataFrame.select multiple columns given a Sequence of column names

val columnNames = Seq("col1","col2",....."coln")

// using the string column names:
val result = dataframe.select(columnNames.head, columnNames.tail: _*)

// or, equivalently, using Column objects:
val result = dataframe.select(columnNames.map(c => col(c)): _*)