Thank you! This is what I needed, I've read it should work as the first() method as well. It's a pity that the taken element cannot be removed from the RDD though.
Thanks again! On 16 July 2014 12:09, Sean Owen <so...@cloudera.com> wrote: > You can rdd.take(1) to get just the header line. > > I think someone mentioned before that this is a good use case for > having a "tail" method on RDDs too, to skip the header for subsequent > processing. But you can ignore it with a filter, or logic in your map > method. > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Silvina Caíno Lores > <silvi.ca...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > > > I'm really new to Spark and I'm trying to figure out which would be the > > proper way to do the following: > > > > 1.- Read a file header (a single line) > > 2.- Build with it a configuration object > > 3.- Use that object in a function that will be called by map() > > > > I thought about using filter() after textFile(), but I don't want to get > an > > RDD as result for I'm expecting a unique object. > > > > Any help is very appreciated. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Silvina >
