ArrayList<EvalSpec> argsList = new ArrayList<EvalSpec>();
argsList.add(new ConstSpec(Math.max(loSort.getRequestedParallelism()-1,1)));
//sort the first column of the cogroup output and feed it to the quantiles function
EvalSpec sortedSampleSpec = new ProjectSpec(1);
EvalSpec starSpec = new StarSpec();
starSpec.setComparatorName(loSort.getSortSpec().getComparatorName());
sortedSampleSpec = sortedSampleSpec.addSpec(new SortDistinctSpec(false, starSpec));
argsList.add(sortedSampleSpec);
EvalSpec args = new GenerateSpec(argsList);