R help - Sep 2006 - remotely saving an R session

Is it possible to remotely save an R session then
terminate R? Of course the destructive task after
'then' is rather straightforward by itself.

Thanks

Forgot to indicate that the remote system is Linux,
accessed remotely by ssh. 

--- Gamal Azim <ageneticist at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to remotely save an R session then
> terminate R? Of course the destructive task after
> 'then' is rather straightforward by itself.
> 
> Thanks
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Gamal Azim wrote:
> Is it possible to remotely save an R session then
> terminate R? Of course the destructive task after
> 'then' is rather straightforward by itself.
Yes. Sending the process a SIGUSR1 signal:

$ kill -USR1 pid

will save the global environment in the file .RData, but you'll need to 
remember the current working directory of the process to find it.

Good luck!

Jeff
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http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/JeffreyHorner