[R] A way to get the R data stored temporarily in working memory?

[Friedericksen]

Hey,
thank you guys for your responses.The problem is, R is already running 
on the loop. So I don't see a way to use save() oder save.image() (or 
any other function?!)

Greetings

Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 4/27/2009 8:52 AM, Friedericksen wrote:
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I have a problem: I created a silly for loop without saving the 
>> results on each step. After a while I realised that it will take days 
>> to finish the loop until I get the results.
>>
>> Is there a way to get the data R saves in working memory or in a 
>> temporary file while runing the loop? So that stoping the loop will 
>> not result in complete data loss?
>>
>> Thank you very much!
> 
> You can use an explicit save() to write out a list of variables (or 
> save.image() to write out all of them) but then you need to work out how 
> to restart from one of these images.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
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