Update: You can now answer this on stackoverflow for 100 bounty:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33704073/how-to-send-transformed-data-from-partitions-to-s3 On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Walrus theCat <walrusthe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have an RDD which crashes the driver when being collected. I want to > send the data on its partitions out to S3 without bringing it back to the > driver. I try calling rdd.foreachPartition, but the data that gets sent has > not gone through the chain of transformations that I need. It's the data > as it was ingested initially. After specifying my chain of > transformations, but before calling foreachPartition, I call rdd.count in > order to force the RDD to transform. The data it sends out is still not > transformed. How do I get the RDD to send out transformed data when > calling foreachPartition? > > Thanks >