[R-sig-Geo] Raster:memory or disk?

[Carson Farmer]

Agus,

What about using:

> object.size(b)

which (according to ?object.size) provides an estimate of the memory
that is being used to store an R object.

Carson

On 30 June 2010 12:58, Agustin Lobo <alobolistas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Is there any way to check if the values of a raster object
> are in memory or in disk?
>
> For example
> r10 <- raster("2000_TSDP_IP-INVDIST-SP10_43023435.tif")
> b <- r10
>
> I understand that values of r10 are not loaded in memory
> but b is completely in memory (am I wrong?)
> How could I actually verify this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Agus
>
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Carson J. Q. Farmer
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National Centre for Geocomputation
National University of Ireland, Maynooth,
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