[R] how to save an R object to a remote computer

[Molly Davies]

Hello,

I am running R remotely on my university's network from my laptop (Macbook Pro, running leopard, in case this is useful). I have a strict limit on how much disk space I can take up on my network account at school, which is insufficient for the size of some of the objects I need to create. Is there any way to use save() and write.table() in R to export directly to a remote machine (in this case that would be my laptop, which has plenty of room)? I need to save vectors of lists of lists (output from mclapply). So far, my search has led me to various database utilities. I suppose I could try to make that work, but I've no experience with databases and am unsure if that is the best way for me to go.
Any advice (including search terms I might not have thought of yet) would be much appreciated.

Thanks very much,

Molly