Xuelin, There is a function called emtpyRDD under spark context <http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/scala/index.html#org.apache.spark.SparkContext> which serves this purpose.
Justin On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:50 PM, Xuelin Cao <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'd like to create a transform function, that convert RDD[String] to > RDD[Int] > > Occasionally, the input RDD could be an empty RDD. I just want to > directly create an empty RDD[Int] if the input RDD is empty. And, I don't > want to return None as the result. > > Is there an easy way to do that? > > >
