So it seems that I've hit the 4GB zipfile limit. However, even if I set compress = FALSE, it still tries to compress, and hence fails.
YS On 2/11/10, Yue Sheng <yueshe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, I have been using ffsave.image() to save mixture of ff and normal > objects in my workspace. e.g. > > ffsave.image(file = "C:\output\saveobjects", rootpath = > "D:\fftempdir", safe = TRUE) > > It works fine but once my workspace has large (~4GB) objects, I get the > error: > > Error in ffsave.image(file = "C:\output\savedobjects", rootpath = > "D:\fftempdir", safe = TRUE) : ff image could not be renamed and is > left in C:\output\savedobjects > > Could this due to the zip.exe having problem zipping a large ff object? > > OS: Windows XP > DiskFormat: NTFS > zip.exe from RTool.exe > > Thanks for help. > > YS > ______________________________________________ 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.