import org.apache.spark.sql.functions._

val sc: SparkContext = ...
val sqlContext = new SQLContext(sc)

import sqlContext.implicits._

val input = sc.parallelize(Seq(
  ("a", 5, 7, 9, 12, 13),
  ("b", 6, 4, 3, 20, 17),
  ("c", 4, 9, 4, 6 , 9),
  ("d", 1, 2, 6, 8 , 1)
)).toDF("ID", "var1", "var2", "var3", "var4", "var5")

val columnsToSum = List(col("var1"), col("var2"), col("var3"), col("var4"), col("var5"))

val output = input.withColumn("sums", columnsToSum.reduce(_ + _))

output.show()