[Rd] save() size in XDR

[Luke Tierney]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Nathan Whitehouse wrote:

> > 
> > I don't think so, though you can guess:  integers
> > are stored in 4
> > bytes, floats in 8, etc.
> 
>   I think this would be good if we only needed a rough
> estimate, but we need something precise.  
> 
> > One way to solve this problem would be to create a
> > connection that did
> > nothing except keep track of a file position, then
> > do the save to that
> > connection.  However, it's not easy to define new
> > connection types.
> > Might be a nice package to write to allow such a
> > thing.
> 
>   That seems reasonable to me.  I'll look into it; are
> there any resources at all for how to define new
> connection types?
> 
>   Thanks much,
> 
> 
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On Unix-like systems something like

> f<-pipe("wc",open="wb")
> save(list=ls(all=TRUE),file=f)
> close(f)
      5      14     200

should work.

Best,

luke

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