Isn’t persist() only for reusing an RDD within an active application? Maybe checkpoint() is what you’re looking for instead?
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 2:02 PM Afshartous, Nick <nafshart...@turbine.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > After calling RDD.persist(), is then possible to come back later and > access the persisted RDD. > > Let's say for instance coming back and starting a new Spark shell > session. How would one access the persisted RDD in the new shell session ? > > > Thanks, > > -- > > Nick >