[R] multi day R run crashed - is there a log

[Sarah Goslee]

Oh dear. No there isn't. I do a lot of very long runs, and have learned to write
out intermediate steps. Depending on what you are doing, saving the RData
file periodically may be appropriate, or writing out a csv file of
results so far,
or even just printing something to the output file (if you are using batch).

There may well be something more elegant, but these solutions have all worked
well for me in various situations.

Sarah

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:46 AM, Martin Tomko <martin.tomko at geo.uzh.ch> wrote:
> Dear all,
> I am using an R 2.10 installation on a Windows 203 server that I have no
> control over. After a multi-day run I found that it was terminated/crashed.
> Is there any log kept by R where I could see whether something/what
> happened? The same process has been run beofre on a smaller dataset (also at
> least a day of computing) without problems.
>
> Thanks
> Martin

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