A way to get the R data stored temporarily in working memory?

On 4/27/2009 10:18 AM, Friedericksen wrote:

Hey,
thank you guys for your responses.The problem is, R is already running 
on the loop. So I don't see a way to use save() oder save.image() (or 
any other function?!)

You would have had to have put these in your loop.  If it's running now, 
there's nothing you can do from within R.

Duncan Murdoch

Greetings

Duncan Murdoch wrote:

On 4/27/2009 8:52 AM, Friedericksen wrote:

Hey guys,

I have a problem: I created a silly for loop without saving the 
results on each step. After a while I realised that it will take 
days to finish the loop until I get the results.

Is there a way to get the data R saves in working memory or in a 
temporary file while runing the loop? So that stoping the loop will 
not result in complete data loss?

Thank you very much!

You can use an explicit save() to write out a list of variables (or 
save.image() to write out all of them) but then you need to work out 
how to restart from one of these images.

Duncan Murdoch