Github user shivaram commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/16312 I looked at this more closely and I think I found the problem - Not sure its easy to fix though. What I traced here is: - When we call sparkR.session.stop and sparkR.session the same JVM backend is reused and only the SparkContext is stopped / recreated - Now the problem happens when we call `read.ml` to read a model after creating a new SparkSession. This in turn calls into RWrappers[1] which has an `sc` member variable - My understanding is that the `sc` member variable is bound the first time we create a SparkSession and when we stop, restart it has a handle to the stale SparkContext - Thus we see errors where it says `Cannot call methods on a stopped SparkContext` I think the right fix here is to pass along a SparkContext into RWrappers and not rely on a prior initialization. However I'm not sure why that design decision was made before, so maybe I'm missing something. [1] https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/f252cb5d161e064d39cc1ed1d9299307a0636174/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/r/RWrappers.scala#L36
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