[R] save.image() error reappears

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

"Marc R. Feldesman" <feldesmanm at pdx.edu> writes:

> Brian Ripley has suggested "permission" problems, but there are none
> that I can see.  Brian and Peter have both mentioned possible RACE
> problems (but why only on "g" and not anywhere else?).  Brian also
> confirms that having the binary on one logical partition and the data
> on another should not be the problem as his wife's system is set up
> this way.

[I think Brian suggested the race condition and I supplied the
definition of the term?] 
 
> I'm left with a couple of questions:  1)  does R have any way of
> knowing how large the hard drive is (unpartitioned).  The "g"
> partition lies out in the region beyond 80 GB, which is the upper
> limit for some programs and BIOS revisions - obviously my BIOS
> supports this.  2)  does anyone have any experience with running R
> under Windows XP on a 2.2 GHz P4?  (This should hardly be an issue,
> but I'm grasping at straws right now.  My machine has 1024 MB RAM and
> a 120 GB Hard drive).
> 
> Any suggestions welcomed.  I'm tearing out what little hair I have left.

(Tearing out hair by grasping at straws? Hmm... ;-) )

Just a few curious questions:

Can you do the rename manually? (From the Explorer or suchlike?)

What are the file sizes of the .RData files?

A quick google run suggests that XP has problems with files
erroneously being marked as being in use in several other contexts.
E.g.

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=windows+xp+file+rename

One of the notes has a hint about "disabling the LastAccess feature in
the registry" or somesuch, but don't take my advice on this stuff, I
don't know anything about Windows....


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