On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 08:21:05 -0800 (PST), Nathan Whitehouse > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > > >Dear R-devel, > > > > Is there a way to find the size in bytes of a save() > >command --before-- the file has been saved? > > I don't think so, though you can guess: integers are stored in 4 > bytes, floats in 8, etc. > > One way to solve this problem would be to create a connection that did > nothing except keep track of a file position, then do the save to that > connection. However, it's not easy to define new connection types. > Might be a nice package to write to allow such a thing.
I don't think it is worth it. Just use an anonymous file connection and seek to the end to measure the length. (Similar to Luke's use of a pipe, but more portable.) -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
