R help - Feb 1999 - .Rdata questions

Dear all,

in a current project I have a pretty huge .Rdata. Thus I was working with
R --vsize 100 --nsize 1000000. Today when I tried to restart R I get the
following error message:

Error: a read error occured
Fatal error: unable to restore saved data
 (remove .RData or increase memory)

I increased memory up to --vsize 180 and --nsize 2000000, but the error
reoccurrs. Is there a way to know whether this error results from a
corrupt .Rdata or whether it is really a question of memory?

And, are there good strategies for not loosing big .Rdata (except for
backups between sessions and regular save.image() within sessions) ?

That is, I guess, one of the few things I prefer in S-plus: firstly, there
is no big file containing all the objects, but the objects are in a
directory .Data (so they can be managed there and if an object is
corrupted you don't loose all your objects) and secondly, that every
object is saved as soon as it is created.

I am mostly working with ESS and it happened to me that after q () I quit
emacs too quickly and lost an .Rdata and some other time I did an C-x k on
the R buffer (which is, admittedly, pretty stupid). Are there ways to get
emacs to need a confirmation if one is trying to kill an active buffer
(well, actually, it needs one normally, doesn't it)? 

Thanks for any help and/or pointers!
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I have no direct answer to Lorenz's problem.

On a related note, though, I was unable to "source" a large matrix
that I
had "dumped".  I kept running out of cons memory (the maximum of which
seems to be 1000000).  When I recalculated the matrix and used write to
create a file, thought, I was able to read it in using read.table.  I hope
this saves someone the frustration of having to discover that. 

Matt

On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Lorenz Gygax wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> in a current project I have a pretty huge .Rdata. Thus I was working with
> R --vsize 100 --nsize 1000000. Today when I tried to restart R I get the
> following error message:
> 
> Error: a read error occured
> Fatal error: unable to restore saved data
>  (remove .RData or increase memory)
> 
> I increased memory up to --vsize 180 and --nsize 2000000, but the error
> reoccurrs. Is there a way to know whether this error results from a
> corrupt .Rdata or whether it is really a question of memory?
> 
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