Persist — persist • SparkR

Persist this SparkDataFrame with the specified storage level. For details of the supported storage levels, refer to https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/rdd-programming-guide.html#rdd-persistence.

Usage

persist(x, newLevel)

# S4 method for class 'SparkDataFrame,character'
persist(x, newLevel)

Arguments

x: the SparkDataFrame to persist.
newLevel: storage level chosen for the persistence. See available options in the description.

Note

persist since 1.4.0

See also

Other SparkDataFrame functions: SparkDataFrame-class, agg(), alias(), arrange(), as.data.frame(), attach,SparkDataFrame-method, broadcast(), cache(), checkpoint(), coalesce(), collect(), colnames(), coltypes(), createOrReplaceTempView(), crossJoin(), cube(), dapplyCollect(), dapply(), describe(), dim(), distinct(), dropDuplicates(), dropna(), drop(), dtypes(), exceptAll(), except(), explain(), filter(), first(), gapplyCollect(), gapply(), getNumPartitions(), group_by(), head(), hint(), histogram(), insertInto(), intersectAll(), intersect(), isLocal(), isStreaming(), join(), limit(), localCheckpoint(), merge(), mutate(), ncol(), nrow(), printSchema(), randomSplit(), rbind(), rename(), repartitionByRange(), repartition(), rollup(), sample(), saveAsTable(), schema(), selectExpr(), select(), showDF(), show(), storageLevel(), str(), subset(), summary(), take(), toJSON(), unionAll(), unionByName(), union(), unpersist(), unpivot(), withColumn(), withWatermark(), with(), write.df(), write.jdbc(), write.json(), write.orc(), write.parquet(), write.stream(), write.text()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
sparkR.session()
path <- "path/to/file.json"
df <- read.json(path)
persist(df, "MEMORY_AND_DISK")
} # }