Hi again, A late thought - I'm still on the first cups of coffee.
It looks to me like you are iterating over a stack to select certain layers to sum. You could achieve the same outcome with possibly much less work. The following example will create a sum of 24-layer blocks along a stack of rasters. # from https://gist.github.com/btupper/20879e0b46e5ed63d402d7cff424dbb7 #' Split a vector into groups of MAX (or possibly fewer) #' #' @param v vector or list to split #' @param MAX numeric the maximum size per group #' @return a list of the vector split into groups split_vector <- function(v, MAX = 200){ nv <- length(v) if (nv <= MAX) return(list('1' = v)) split(v, findInterval(1:nv, seq(from = 1, to = nv, by = MAX))) } library(raster) N <- 345 n <- 24 nc <- 4 nr <- 3 R <- raster(matrix(runif(nc*nr), ncol = nc, nrow = nr)) RR <- stack(lapply(seq_len(N), function(i) R)) ix <- split_vector(seq_len(N), MAX = n) SS <- lapply(ix, function(index) sum(RR[[index]])) So, S[[1]], which looks like this... $`1` class : RasterLayer dimensions : 3, 4, 12 (nrow, ncol, ncell) resolution : 0.25, 0.3333333 (x, y) extent : 0, 1, 0, 1 (xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax) coord. ref. : NA data source : in memory names : layer values : 0.9451534, 20.0503 (min, max) ... is the sum of the first 24 layers of RR. SS[[2]] will be the sum of the next 24, and so on. Is that what you are trying to do? Cheers, Ben > On Jul 29, 2017, at 7:56 AM, John Wasige <johnwas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear all, > > I am running the script below & I get the following error: > Error in basename(x) : path too long > > What could be the problem? > Thanks for your help > John > > ### Script > > setwd("I:/Mauritius2001_2015") # directory of data > newlist= read.csv('I:/Mauritius2001_2015/Mauritius.csv',header=F) > > refr <- raster(paste("I:/Mauritius2001_2015/",newlist[i,1],sep = "")) > refr[!is.na(refr)] <- 0 > for(i in seq(1,345,by=23)){ > rsum <- refr > for(p in 0:22){ > r <- raster(paste("I:/Mauritius2001_2015/",newlist[i+p],sep = "")) > rsum <- rsum + r > } > # rsum <- rsum > writeRaster(rsum, > filename=paste("D:/Mauritius2001_2015/Annual/",substr(newlist[i],1,6),".tif",sep=''), > format="GTiff", overwrite=TRUE) > } > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-Geo mailing list > R-sig-Geo@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo Ben Tupper Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences 60 Bigelow Drive, P.O. Box 380 East Boothbay, Maine 04544 http://www.bigelow.org Ecocast Reports: http://seascapemodeling.org/ecocast.html Tick Reports: https://report.bigelow.org/tick/ Jellyfish Reports: https://jellyfish.bigelow.org/jellyfish/ _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo