diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/api/java/JavaDoubleRDD.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/api/java/JavaDoubleRDD.scala
index f816bb43a5b4..5687eebfe3dc 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/api/java/JavaDoubleRDD.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/api/java/JavaDoubleRDD.scala
@@ -153,6 +153,14 @@ class JavaDoubleRDD(val srdd: RDD[scala.Double]) extends JavaRDDLike[JDouble, Ja
   /** Add up the elements in this RDD. */
   def sum(): JDouble = srdd.sum()
 
+
+  /** Max of the elements in this RDD. */
+  def max(): JDouble = srdd.max()
+
+
+  /** Min of the elements in this RDD. */
+  def min(): JDouble = srdd.min()
+
   /**
    * Return a [[org.apache.spark.util.StatCounter]] object that captures the mean, variance and
    * count of the RDD's elements in one operation.
diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/DoubleRDDFunctions.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/DoubleRDDFunctions.scala
index a7b6b3b5146c..406d1c9b759f 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/DoubleRDDFunctions.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/DoubleRDDFunctions.scala
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ class DoubleRDDFunctions(self: RDD[Double]) extends Logging with Serializable {
   }
 
   /**
-   * Return a [[org.apache.spark.util.StatCounter]] object that captures the mean, variance and
-   * count of the RDD's elements in one operation.
+   * Return a [[org.apache.spark.util.StatCounter]] object that captures the mean, variance,
+   * count, min and max of the RDD's elements in one operation.
    */
   def stats(): StatCounter = {
     self.mapPartitions(nums => Iterator(StatCounter(nums))).reduce((a, b) => a.merge(b))
@@ -51,6 +51,12 @@ class DoubleRDDFunctions(self: RDD[Double]) extends Logging with Serializable {
   /** Compute the standard deviation of this RDD's elements. */
   def stdev(): Double = stats().stdev
 
+  /** Find the min element of this RDD's elements. */
+  def min(): Double = stats().min
+
+  /** Find the max element of this RDD's elements. */
+  def max(): Double = stats().max
+
   /** 
    * Compute the sample standard deviation of this RDD's elements (which corrects for bias in
    * estimating the standard deviation by dividing by N-1 instead of N).
@@ -86,14 +92,9 @@ class DoubleRDDFunctions(self: RDD[Double]) extends Logging with Serializable {
    * If the elements in RDD do not vary (max == min) always returns a single bucket.
    */
   def histogram(bucketCount: Int): Pair[Array[Double], Array[Long]] = {
-    // Compute the minimum and the maxium
-    val (max: Double, min: Double) = self.mapPartitions { items =>
-      Iterator(items.foldRight(Double.NegativeInfinity,
-        Double.PositiveInfinity)((e: Double, x: Pair[Double, Double]) =>
-        (x._1.max(e), x._2.min(e))))
-    }.reduce { (maxmin1, maxmin2) =>
-      (maxmin1._1.max(maxmin2._1), maxmin1._2.min(maxmin2._2))
-    }
+    // Compute the minimum and the maximum from stats once
+    val _stats = stats()
+    val (max: Double, min: Double) = (_stats.max, _stats.min)
     if (min.isNaN || max.isNaN || max.isInfinity || min.isInfinity ) {
       throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
         "Histogram on either an empty RDD or RDD containing +/-infinity or NaN")
diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/StatCounter.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/StatCounter.scala
index f837dc7ccc86..4cd0057f1bb3 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/StatCounter.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/StatCounter.scala
@@ -29,6 +29,12 @@ class StatCounter(values: TraversableOnce[Double]) extends Serializable {
   private var n: Long = 0     // Running count of our values
   private var mu: Double = 0  // Running mean of our values
   private var m2: Double = 0  // Running variance numerator (sum of (x - mean)^2)
+  private var _min: Double = Double.PositiveInfinity
+  private var _max: Double = Double.NegativeInfinity
+
+  def min: Double = _min
+
+  def max: Double = _max
 
   merge(values)
 
@@ -41,6 +47,8 @@ class StatCounter(values: TraversableOnce[Double]) extends Serializable {
     n += 1
     mu += delta / n
     m2 += delta * (value - mu)
+    _min = math.min(value, _min)
+    _max = math.max(value, _max)
     this
   }
 
@@ -58,7 +66,9 @@ class StatCounter(values: TraversableOnce[Double]) extends Serializable {
       if (n == 0) {
         mu = other.mu
         m2 = other.m2
-        n = other.n       
+        n = other.n
+        _min = other.min
+        _max = other.max
       } else if (other.n != 0) {        
         val delta = other.mu - mu
         if (other.n * 10 < n) {
@@ -70,6 +80,8 @@ class StatCounter(values: TraversableOnce[Double]) extends Serializable {
         }
         m2 += other.m2 + (delta * delta * n * other.n) / (n + other.n)
         n += other.n
+        _min = math.min(other.min, _min)
+        _max = math.max(other.max, _max)
       }
       this
     }
@@ -81,6 +93,8 @@ class StatCounter(values: TraversableOnce[Double]) extends Serializable {
     other.n = n
     other.mu = mu
     other.m2 = m2
+    other._min = _min
+    other._max = _max
     other
   }
 
@@ -120,9 +134,9 @@ class StatCounter(values: TraversableOnce[Double]) extends Serializable {
    */
   def sampleStdev: Double = math.sqrt(sampleVariance)
 
-  override def toString: String = {
-    "(count: %d, mean: %f, stdev: %f)".format(count, mean, stdev)
-  }
+  override def toString: String =
+    s"count: $count, mean: $mean, stdev: $stdev , min: ${_min}, max: ${_max}"
+
 }
 
 object StatCounter {
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/JavaAPISuite.java b/core/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/JavaAPISuite.java
index 40e853c39ca9..241b610b7f5e 100644
--- a/core/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/JavaAPISuite.java
+++ b/core/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/JavaAPISuite.java
@@ -395,7 +395,8 @@ public Boolean call(Double x) {
     Assert.assertEquals(7.46667, rdd.sampleVariance(), 0.01);
     Assert.assertEquals(2.49444, rdd.stdev(), 0.01);
     Assert.assertEquals(2.73252, rdd.sampleStdev(), 0.01);
-
+    Assert.assertEquals(1.0, rdd.min(), 0.01);
+    Assert.assertEquals(8.0, rdd.max(), 0.01);
     rdd.first();
     rdd.take(5);
   }
diff --git a/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/PartitioningSuite.scala b/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/PartitioningSuite.scala
index 4305686d3a6d..741a7fc1408e 100644
--- a/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/PartitioningSuite.scala
+++ b/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/PartitioningSuite.scala
@@ -171,6 +171,8 @@ class PartitioningSuite extends FunSuite with SharedSparkContext with PrivateMet
     assert(abs(6.0/2 - rdd.mean) < 0.01)
     assert(abs(1.0 - rdd.variance) < 0.01)
     assert(abs(1.0 - rdd.stdev) < 0.01)
+    assert(abs(2.0 - stats.min) < 0.01)
+    assert(abs(4.0 - stats.max) < 0.01)
 
     // Add other tests here for classes that should be able to handle empty partitions correctly
   }
diff --git a/project/build.properties b/project/build.properties
index 4b52bb928a66..43aca56fceaa 100644
--- a/project/build.properties
+++ b/project/build.properties
@@ -14,4 +14,4 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 #
-sbt.version=0.13.1
+sbt.version=0.13.2-M1