Hi Tarun, I think there just hasn't been a strong need for it when you can accomplish the same with just rdd.flatMap(identity). I see a JIRA was just opened for this https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-18855
On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Tarun Kumar <tarunk1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Although a flatMap would yield me the results which I look from map > followed by flatten, but just out of curiosity, Why there is no flatten > method provided on RDD. > > Would it make sense to submit a PR adding flatten on RDD? > > Thanks > Tarun >
