apache/spark — pull request #916 by dorx (2014-05-29 22:26:59+00:00)
Title: SPARK-1939 Refactor takeSample method in RDD to use ScaSRS

Modified the takeSample method in RDD to use the ScaSRS sampling technique to improve performance. Added a private method that computes sampling rate > sample_size/total to ensure sufficient sample size with success rate >= 0.9999. Added a unit test for the private method to validate choice of sampling rate.