Scala is a general purpose programming language principally targeting the Java Virtual Machine. Designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way, it fuses both imperative and functional programming styles.

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Scala spark add new column rdd containing matching values [duplicate]

I am a beginner in spark Scala . Given rdd1 and rdd2 ...
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Processing data spark scala function [on hold]

I am a beginner in spark Scala . Given rdd1 and rdd2 ...
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Print Trace Debugger

See my Scala print trace debugger. This project is used for lightweight debugging sort of like the Haskell Debug.Trace module. The README, the documentation, and the test cases need work. To test it ...
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Determining the HTTP status code to return for a request

I have a piece of code that I would like to refactor but can't figure how to do it. This is a method from a Play controller where I have to verify many precondition and respond different status for ...
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Needleman Wunsch algorithm in Scala

The Needleman–Wunsch algorithm is an algorithm used in bioinformatics to align protein or nucleotide sequences. Here is an implementation in Scala: ...
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Longest palindromes

I've been tasked to solve this exercise lately, and this is what I wrote: ...
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Limit HTTP request rate for spray/akka-http

I want to limit the request rate in a spray/akka-http route. I'm not an expert with both scala and spray/akka but learning. So I came up with the following custom directive: ...
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Finding the most frequent words in Scala using Akka

I'm new to akka and would like to get some feedback on my first attempt. The code takes text from stdin and finds the top 10 most frequently occurring words. Specifically, I would like to know Is ...
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Frequency of words in all files of a directory using Future - Scala

I created a program to get frequency of word in all files in a directory using Future API ...
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Stronger Functor TypeClass

I'm working on arrow library for scala I've come with some new typeclass, which looks like generalized Functor ...
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Object to YAML (and viceversa) conversion in Scala

In order to learn Scala, I'm writing a simple module that takes a Service object I defined and serializes it in YAML format. This is the definition of my ...
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Immutable queue implementation in Scala

I created a queue in which we can perform Enqueue, Dequeue and Traversing in Scala. ...
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Implicit type class for updating maps

With the help of SO I got my code working, but I think it still could be improved, in particular I do not like using asInstanceOf. Is there some way how to avoid ...
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List of Files in any Folder - Scala

I have written a code to count the number of files in a folder and if there are any folder inside folder it will count the files in that folder too. ...
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Scala implementation of @rolfl's integer-partitioning algorithm

While reviewing @Martijn's Distinct sums of integers (finding all combinations of positive integers that sum to a given number), I proposed the following solution: ...
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Producing uniform lists in Scala

When writing an answer to another question here, I came across the problem of producing lists of integers having a certain total and only consisting of a certain number and an optional rest. So for ...
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Functional translation of dice simulation

I have tried my hands at "functionalising" a toy problem I had: find the expected number of throws of a six sided die until all sides have been seen (the answer is 14.7) My starting point is my ...
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Similar 2 classes in Scala need to refactoring

I am newbie in scala don't know how to refactor to make it better because currently it kinds of boring when read it. I have 2 classes BidWinPostData and BidEventPostData. They are kind similar the ...
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PBKDF2 and HMAC implementation in Scala

First of all: I know that rolling your own cryptographic functions is bad. The SHA256 implementation i use is from Bouncycastle, but i think both HMAC and PBKDF2 are not vulnerable to timing attacks ...
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Adding polynomials represented as maps

I'm using maps to represent a polynomial. The key is the exponent and the value is the coefficient : Map(exp -> coef) e.g. ...
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Distinct sums of integers

I need to get the distinct sums of naturals of a natural What I came up with is: ...
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collect and parallelize in spark performance

the below code is working fine, but as this is new for me, please help to improve performance. as I have not included yet my complex logic but confused over collect and parallelize. Aim is to collect ...
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Caching side effects

Is this a proper way to cache side effects (occurring on job.tryLoad)? ...
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Solution to part 1 of Day 7 Advent of Code in Scala

Does someone want to review my solution to part 1 of Day 7 Advent of Code in Scala? The assignment is here: http://adventofcode.com/day/7 Without repeating the whole text, in short: Given a text file ...
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Return different type of response based on Accept header

I'm a novice to Scala and Akka-Http and am experimenting with Akka-Http for writing rest services. I have to return JSON or protobuf based on the Accept-Header. ...
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Handling HTTP requests and saving user to database

I am using Play Framework and Slick. In userController.scala I am handling HTTP post requests and sending to personRepository.scala. Is this controller and method written in the correct way? ...
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RandomForest multi-class classification

Below is the code I have for a RandomForest multiclass-classification model. I am reading from a CSV file and doing various transformations as seen in the code. I ...
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Divide list into n parts in scala [closed]

The problem is to divide a list into n parts according to a predicate. I found recursive solution but I am sure that a more elegant solution also exists. ...
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Ising Model - Atom Vibration Simulation in Scala

I am an experienced Java developer (12+ years) and have recently switched to Scala and I love it. However I feel not comfy yet and I have a feeling that I might use to many paradigms from the good old ...
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Handling state in actor

The following Actor monitors file by getting events from watchservice actor that sends a message to the actor and notifies for event (create,modify or delete), would love to know how I may improve ...
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Let user add rows to table

I'd like the user to be able to add rows to a table in my Play application written in Scala. The row is defined in a custom tag and makes use of Bootstrap via the plugin by Adrian Hurt. My current ...
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Scala list to tuple conversion

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Scala code to print a Sudoku board and any possible unsolved values

I'm working through a Sudoku solver problem that I found at UPenn (no it's not my homework ;)). I'm a beginner at Scala, and I'm trying to write good functional code (not that this particular method ...
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String Calculator Kata in Scala

This is my solution of string calulator kata in scala(i'm new of tdd). I'd like a general review of this. String Calculator Create a simple String calculator with a method int Add(string ...
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Generating the maximum number possible from an array

I have the following code in Scala as a solution to the problem: Find the maximum number possible from the given Seq of Integers while keeping the individual numbers intact e.g. Seq(2,5,9,4) ...
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Early-termination foldLeft for Scala Streams

The foldRight and foldLeft methods for Scala Streams cannot terminate early, so here is my ...
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Parallel Merge Sort in Scala

I have been trying to implement parallel merge sort in Scala. My current implementation is about as fast as .sorted, but I have no idea what would be the right ...
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Bubble sort in Scala

I wanted to implement a bubble sort in Scala following the steps described in: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/z22wwmn/revision/3 ...
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Scala Binary Search Tree

In an attempt to get deeper down into Scala, I decided to make a BST using as many interesting concepts as possible in order to explore everything Scala has to offer. Taking inspiration from this ...
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A Scala script for beautify scientific notation strings from Excel

Excel renders scientific notation in the engineering fashion, e.g. “4.2E-5”. That’s OK, but when you are writing a scientific paper, it’s likely that you want it to look like this: “4.2×10�?��?�”. I have ...
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Console User Interface Framework

I've been learning Scala and I'd love to get your feedback in order to improve. As an exercise I made a simple framework for creating command-line user interfaces. Gist ...
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Euler #25 Scala

I usually write Euler solutions in Javascript. On problems requiring very large integers I have decided to learn Scala and take advantage of BigInt. I wrote a ...
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Extending SeqLike - move an element to the front of the sequence

I wrote a method called bringToFront, which moves an element a to the first position of a sequence ...
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Design of Basic Dominion Game Cards [closed]

I thought it would be fun to implement the card game Dominion in Scala. I have implemented the basic card types and wanted to see if there was a better way to implement the card types. So far this is ...
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TrieMap based Simple Graph API

Looking for some feedback regarding elegance, about my code below implementing a simple graph API basing on scala.collection.concurrent.TrieMap. Background: I am ...
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Project Euler 4 The Functional Way

I'm learning Scala (and functional programming). Is there a better way to solve Euler problem 4 than either of these two solutions. Euler 4 I like this array comprehension solution, but it wastes so ...
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Why does this scala code only execute the last future when necessary? [closed]

From https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/actors_vs_futures.html: A very nice feature of Futures is that they are highly composable. Consider the following problem. I want to return an HTTP ...
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Getting branches of a tree

Given a tree structure (in this example it a list of some nested group nodes), what is the best way to get all branches (branch = list of nodes from root to the leaf element)? My solution (here root ...
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Text tokenizer example

Here is a partial example of a text tokenizer. I'm looking for ways to improve one particular line in this code: ...
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Binary tree implementation in Scala

This is my implementation of a binary tree in Scala. How can this be made better? ...