[R] Removal of temp files in R 1.60 with xgobi - reversable?

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

The issue seems to me that you are using the temporary directory for
files which you don't want to be temporary. Answer: don't use the
temporary directory!

xgobi(keep=TRUE) keeps files after the xgobi() function terminates, but
only for the duration of the R session.  So you can easily copy them
somewhere permanent. If that isn't sufficient for you, alter the
following line in the xgobi function:

    dfile <- tempfile(paste(fprefix, abbreviate(gsub("[^A-Za-z0-9]",
        "", title), 5), sep = ""))

not to use tempfile.

On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Harry Mangalam wrote:

>  From the NEWS file for R 1.60:
>
> Each R session uses a per-session temporary directory which
> 	is removed at normal termination.  The directory name is given
> 	by the tempdir() function, and filenames returned by
> 	tempfile() will be within that directory.
>
> Is there any way to maintain these temporary files?  I use R to generate output
> files that  are viewable with the xgobi package which has a 'keep' option to
> maintain temporary files, but this seems to be overridden in R itself.
>
> It worked OK with R up to 1.51, I think.
>
> I'd actually like to be able to specify the entire temp directory as well since
> I have to generate this directory anyway.
>
>
> --
> Cheers, Harry
> Harry J Mangalam - 949 856 2847 (v&f) - hjm at tacgi.com (primary)
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