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authorRishi Verma <riverma@apache.org>2014-07-08 00:29:23 -0700
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Made sure that readers know the random number generator seed argument, within the 'takeSample' method, is optional. Author: Rishi Verma <riverma@apache.org> Closes #1324 from riverma/patch-1 and squashes the following commits: 4699676 [Rishi Verma] Updated programming-guide.md
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<td> Return an array with the first <i>n</i> elements of the dataset. Note that this is currently not executed in parallel. Instead, the driver program computes all the elements. </td>
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- <td> <b>takeSample</b>(<i>withReplacement</i>, <i>num</i>, <i>seed</i>) </td>
- <td> Return an array with a random sample of <i>num</i> elements of the dataset, with or without replacement, using the given random number generator seed. </td>
+ <td> <b>takeSample</b>(<i>withReplacement</i>, <i>num</i>, [<i>seed</i>]) </td>
+ <td> Return an array with a random sample of <i>num</i> elements of the dataset, with or without replacement, optionally pre-specifying a random number generator seed.</td>
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<td> <b>takeOrdered</b>(<i>n</i>, <i>[ordering]</i>) </td>