[R] save R object into a remote directory

[peter dalgaard]

On 06 Sep 2016, at 11:00 , Rainer M Krug <Rainer at krugs.de> wrote:

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> Simone Tenan <tenan.simone at gmail.com> writes:
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>> Thanks Rainer,
>> it's very kind of you. 
>> Unfortunately, I cannot save the (large) R object where the current R session is running. There is not enough memory and when I tried I got the error "error
>> writing to connection".
> 
> OK - essential piece of information.
> 
> In this case, your best bet is trying to mount an a flder from your
> client on the server and than save there.


I think you can in principle do something with a socketConnection and SSH port forwarding, but it is not trivial.

> Contact you administrator to find out if this is possible or (s)he has
> other suggestions.
> 

yep.

>> For that reason I was trying to save the object of of the remote server.
>> 
>> Best,
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rainer
> 
>> Simone
>> 
>> On 6 September 2016 at 10:30, Rainer M Krug <Rainer at krugs.de> wrote:
>> 
>> Simone Tenan <tenan.simone at gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> I'm using R remotely via ssh connection in linux. I need to save a large R
>>> object from the remote server to my laptop. How can I specify the path in
>>> the save() function?
>> 
>> You are working on the remote machine and there is no way that you can
>> specify "out of the box" a save to client machine (I stand to be corrected).
>> 
>> You could mount a directory on the client on the server, but I would
>> suggest to
>> 
>> 1) save the object on the server (the where R is running on)
>> 2) use scp from the client to copy the file from the server to the
>> client (the one you are typing on).
>> 
>> scp user at host1:file1 ./TheNameOfTheLocalFile
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Rainer
>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks much for your help,
>>> Simone
>>> 
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