spark_statistical_routines {sparklyr}

Generate random samples from some distribution

Description

Generator methods for creating single-column Spark dataframes comprised of i.i.d. samples from some distribution.

Arguments

sc

A Spark connection.

n

Sample Size (default: 1000).

num_partitions

Number of partitions in the resulting Spark dataframe (default: default parallelism of the Spark cluster).

seed

Random seed (default: a random long integer).

output_col

Name of the output column containing sample values (default: "x").