I seem to recall there were some specific requirements on how to import the implicits.
Here is the issue:
scala> import org.apache.spark.mllib.rdd.RDDFunctions._
<console>:10: error: object RDDFunctions in package rdd cannot be accessed
in package org.apache.spark.mllib.rdd
import org.apache.spark.mllib.rdd.RDDFunctions._
