This might seem like a strange question but is there any way to compress an R object (such as a matrix) and know its resulting size in bytes ? Clearly, I could implement this in the following way (if x is my matrix): zz <- gzfile(fname,"w"); write.table(x,zz); close(zz); file.info(fname)[,"size"]; However, I need to do this for hundreds of thousands of objects and the overhead in terms of disk access due to the actual file creation is prohibitive.
I guess, I would like a modified object.size() function that returns the size of the compressed (e.g. gzip) version of the object. Thanks! Markus [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.