Github user aarondav commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/incubator-spark/pull/508#discussion_r9973811 --- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/RDD.scala --- @@ -394,6 +394,17 @@ abstract class RDD[T: ClassTag]( def ++(other: RDD[T]): RDD[T] = this.union(other) /** + * Return this RDD sorted by the given key function. + */ + def sortBy[K: Ordering: ClassTag]( + f: (T) â K, + ascending: Boolean = true, --- End diff -- It's nice that you've added parameters for ascending and numPartitions, but nicer still would be to use them :)
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