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

spark.range(0).drop("id")

This creates a DataFrame with an "id" column and no rows then drops the "id" column, leaving you with a truly empty DataFrame.