[R] Converting S-plus project folders to R

[Uwe Ligges]

Bosley, David wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. Sometimes R does crash (quits completely). Other times, it just hangs after giving an error box with some sort of exception code, even though it looks like it's still trying to execute the data.restore. 


- Hmmm, that should not happen. Can you generate some reproducible 
example (e.g. by generating some random numbers in some file?)?
- I guess we are talking about R-2.9.0? Today's release of R-2.9.1 won't 
fix it probably, but it is worth to try at least.

Best wishes,
Uwe Ligges








> -----Original Message-----
> From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de] 
> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 2:21 AM
> To: Bosley, David
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Converting S-plus project folders to R
> 
> 
> 
> dbosley wrote:
>> I have many S-plus project folders that I need to convert to R workspaces.
>> For the smaller project folders (< 200MB), using "data.dump" with 
>> "oldStyle = T" and "data.restore" (in the foreign package) within R 
>> seems to work fine. However, I have several project folders that are quite large (~ 4GB).
>> When I use this procedure to try to convert these project folders, R 
>> always crashes when I perform the "data.restore" command. Does anyone 
>> have any suggestions?
> 
> No suggestion, just to be sure:
> I hope R gives an error message rather than a crash?
> 
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> Thanks,
>> Dave Bosley
>>
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