[R] storage of lm objects in a database

[Arne.Muller@aventis.com]

Hello,

I'd like to use DBI to store lm objects in a database. I've to analyze many of linear models and I cannot store them in a single R-session (not enough memory). Also it'd be nice to have them persistent.

Maybe it's possible to create a compact binary representation of the object (the kind of format created created by "save"), so that one doesn't need to write a conversion routine for these objects (or maybe there's already a conversion available for lm?). I assume that the data do not need to be analyzed with a any other software than R.

I'm happy for any suggestions and links to get some more info on this.

	kid regards,

	Arne

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Arne Muller, Ph.D.
Toxicogenomics, Aventis Pharma
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