> Perhaps, true in some respects. I am still chiseling out work using > primitive editing tools. But it still takes several minutes to load the > objects I am working on into memory and then several minutes each to build > new models. The models still reside in memory, since I do not know any > method for automatically saving the output that would not further increase > the time expended. Typically I am working on .Rdta files that are 400MB on > disk and then are around 4GB in RAM. I need to make a tradeoff between the > time I would lose in saving after every <n> models or tabulation, versus the > security of having everything saved. If you want to recommend methods that > would speed those processes, I'm surely all ears.
Well it sounds like you won't lose any work, but you will lose some time. But why not open another session of R for R-help questions? Then you're never in any danger. I often have four or five instances of R running for different projects. Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ 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.
