On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Nathan Whitehouse wrote: > > > > I don't think so, though you can guess: integers > > are stored in 4 > > bytes, floats in 8, etc. > > I think this would be good if we only needed a rough > estimate, but we need something precise. > > > 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. > > That seems reasonable to me. I'll look into it; are > there any resources at all for how to define new > connection types? > > Thanks much, > > > ===== > Nathan Whitehouse > Statistics/Programming > Baylor College of Medicine > Houston, TX, USA > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > work: 1-713-798-9029 > cell: 1-512-293-5840 > > http://rho-project.org: rho- open source web services for R. > http://franklin.imgen.bcm.tmc.edu: Shaw laboratory, bcm. > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >
On Unix-like systems something like > f<-pipe("wc",open="wb") > save(list=ls(all=TRUE),file=f) > close(f) 5 14 200 should work. Best, luke -- Luke Tierney University of Iowa Phone: 319-335-3386 Department of Statistics and Fax: 319-335-3017 Actuarial Science 241 Schaeffer Hall email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Iowa City, IA 52242 WWW: http://www.stat.uiowa.edu ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel