diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/feature/ChiSqSelector.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/feature/ChiSqSelector.scala
index 32f15552094e..f923be871f43 100644
--- a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/feature/ChiSqSelector.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/feature/ChiSqSelector.scala
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ object ChiSqSelectorModel extends Loader[ChiSqSelectorModel] {
       val dataArray = Array.tabulate(model.selectedFeatures.length) { i =>
         Data(model.selectedFeatures(i))
       }
-      spark.createDataFrame(dataArray).repartition(1).write.parquet(Loader.dataPath(path))
+      spark.createDataFrame(sc.makeRDD(dataArray, 1)).write.parquet(Loader.dataPath(path))
     }
 
     def load(sc: SparkContext, path: String): ChiSqSelectorModel = {