How to create an empty DataFrame? Why “ValueError: RDD is empty”?

Question

I am trying to create an empty dataframe in Spark (Pyspark).

I am using similar approach to the one discussed here enter link description here, but it is not working.

Answer 1

If you want an empty dataframe based on an existing one, simple limit rows to 0. In PySpark :

emptyDf = existingDf.limit(0)