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

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 4/27/2009 10:18 AM, Friedericksen wrote:
> 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?!)

You would have had to have put these in your loop.  If it's running now, 
there's nothing you can do from within R.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> 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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