[R] Saving environment object

[Henrik Bengtsson]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Benjamin Otto
<b.otto at uke.uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
> Hi Erik,
>
> Yes this is what I was trying and your example or the one of luke is working
> fine with me.
>
> So now I'm not sure if this is due to an environment which takes too much
> space. The environment troubling me has 644276 entries. Is this too much?

Use a divide-and-conquer approach and identify a minimal set of
entries causing this problem.  That will lead you to the right track.
It certainly help to know what data types you have in your
environment.

/Henrik

>
> Benjamin
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Erik Iverson [mailto:iverson at biostat.wisc.edu]
> Gesendet: Friday, August 15, 2008 3:37 PM
> An: Benjamin Otto
> Cc: R-Help
> Betreff: Re: [R] Saving environment object
>
> Benjamin Otto wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I create an environment object with new.env() and populate it with
>> values then how can I save it into an .RData file properly, so it can be
>> loaded later on in a new session?
>>
>> Saving an environment object with save() or save.image() results in an
> error
>> message when loading again:
>>
>> Error: protect(): protection stack overflow
>
> Can you give a small, reproducible example as the posting guide asks?
> And also provide your sessionInfo() ?
>
> I am not able to replicate this.
>
> test <- new.env()
> assign("hi", pi, pos = test)
> save(test, file = "~/testenv.Rdata")
>
> does not give me an error.  Is this basically what you're trying?
>
>
>
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