Can one of the admins verify this patch?

Jenkins, test this please.

Thanks for the patch, @InvisibleTech! We've just made that API change recently and forgot to patch the docs, so thank you for updating the docs after you ran into the issue!

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@fnothaft shouldn't the implicit take care of this?

@heuermh good point, I was just thinking that. I think the correct approach would be to add the implicit conversion. We just import import org.bdgenomics.adam.rdd.ADAMContext, not import org.bdgenomics.adam.rdd.ADAMContext._

Got it... I ran the example with the wildcard implicit and it works. Though... not sure if this a Spark 1.6 or OSX Spark thing but if you don't end the code lines for the val kmers = .... line you end up with spark shell errors running the kmer.scala sample. I'll post a new PR for this. thanks for the review... who'd have thought a README review could be so useful.

Please see #1033 for my better fix per your suggestion.

Closing in favor of #1033, thanks!