How to create RDD over hashmap?

[Manoj Samel]

Is there a way to create RDD over a hashmap ?

If I have a hash map and try sc.parallelize, it gives

<console>:17: error: type mismatch;
 found   : scala.collection.mutable.HashMap[String,Double]
 required: Seq[?]
Error occurred in an application involving default arguments.
       val cr_rdd = sc.parallelize(cr)
                                   ^