I would like to change where R stores the temporary files to my external hard drive in my iMac. This is important because the temporary files R creates are huge and I do not have enough available space in my internal HD. Again, this is for macOS. This change has to be temporary. Later I need to use the usual location for temp files in the internal HD. Thanks in advance, Kumar Mainali -- Postdoctoral Associate Department of Biology University of Maryland, College Park ? [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Kumar, tempfile has a dir parameter that you can use to designate the directory the file will be created in.-- H On 23 February 2018 at 10:52, Kumar Mainali <kpmainali at gmail.com> wrote:> I would like to change where R stores the temporary files to my external > hard drive in my iMac. This is important because the temporary files R > creates are huge and I do not have enough available space in my internal > HD. Again, this is for macOS. > > This change has to be temporary. Later I need to use the usual location for > temp files in the internal HD. > > Thanks in advance, > Kumar Mainali > > -- > Postdoctoral Associate > Department of Biology > University of Maryland, College Park > ? > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. >-- OpenPGP: https://sks-keyservers.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xFEBAD7FFD041BBA1 If you wish to request my time, please do so using http://bit.ly/hd1ScheduleRequest. Si vous voudrais faire connnaisance, allez a http://bit.ly/hd1ScheduleRequest. <https://sks-keyservers.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xFEBAD7FFD041BBA1>Sent from my mobile device Envoye de mon portable [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Does setting the environment variable TMPDIR, before starting R, to a directory on a bigger file system help? On Linux I get % mkdir /tmp/RTMP-BILL % env TMPDIR=/tmp/RTMP-BILL R --quiet --vanilla > tempdir() [1] "/tmp/RTMP-BILL/Rtmppgowz4" > tempfile() [1] "/tmp/RTMP-BILL/Rtmppgowz4/file7ce36ec5cb1e" I don't know if there is an R-specific environment variable or startup flag for this. Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 10:52 AM, Kumar Mainali <kpmainali at gmail.com> wrote:> I would like to change where R stores the temporary files to my external > hard drive in my iMac. This is important because the temporary files R > creates are huge and I do not have enough available space in my internal > HD. Again, this is for macOS. > > This change has to be temporary. Later I need to use the usual location for > temp files in the internal HD. > > Thanks in advance, > Kumar Mainali > > -- > Postdoctoral Associate > Department of Biology > University of Maryland, College Park > ? > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 1:55 PM, William Dunlap via R-help <r-help at r-project.org> wrote:> Does setting the environment variable TMPDIR, before starting R, > to a directory on a bigger file system help? On Linux I get > > % mkdir /tmp/RTMP-BILL > % env TMPDIR=/tmp/RTMP-BILL R --quiet --vanilla > > tempdir() > [1] "/tmp/RTMP-BILL/Rtmppgowz4" > > tempfile() > [1] "/tmp/RTMP-BILL/Rtmppgowz4/file7ce36ec5cb1e" > > I don't know if there is an R-specific environment variable or startup > flag for this.Yes, TMPDIR needs to be set *prior* to launching R in order for R to acknowledge it. Although most environment variables can be set in platform-independent Renviron files which are processed early during the R startup, TMPDIR is one of the exception - it is simply too late to set it there because R =needs it very very early on. So, it needs to be set as in Bill's example above, or similarly: export TMPDIR=/tmp/RTMP-BILL /Henrik> > > > Bill Dunlap > TIBCO Software > wdunlap tibco.com > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 10:52 AM, Kumar Mainali <kpmainali at gmail.com> wrote: > >> I would like to change where R stores the temporary files to my external >> hard drive in my iMac. This is important because the temporary files R >> creates are huge and I do not have enough available space in my internal >> HD. Again, this is for macOS. >> >> This change has to be temporary. Later I need to use the usual location for >> temp files in the internal HD. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Kumar Mainali >> >> -- >> Postdoctoral Associate >> Department of Biology >> University of Maryland, College Park >> ? >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> 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. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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.
You can set this in script as:
library("unixtools ")
set.tempdir("/home/path_to_dir/temp_dir/")
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Sanjeev
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Subject: [R] change location of temporary files
I would like to change where R stores the temporary files to my external hard
drive in my iMac. This is important because the temporary files R creates are
huge and I do not have enough available space in my internal HD. Again, this is
for macOS.
This change has to be temporary. Later I need to use the usual location for temp
files in the internal HD.
Thanks in advance,
Kumar Mainali
--
Postdoctoral Associate
Department of Biology
University of Maryland, College Park
?
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