I am trying to solve the following problem using the mmap package: ? 1.)?Store some data as a memory mapped file that resides on the disk.? 2.) Open the data and add some new data (or change it) to that file. 1.) works fine using the following code: cFile <-tempfile() dfrData <- data.frame(matrix(data=1, ncol=2, nrow=10)) mmapData <- as.mmap(dfrData, file=cFile) stcData <- mmapData$storage.mode munmap(mmapData) 2.) Now I want to link mmapAfter to the file that should still reside as cFile, or? What is the problem here? The error I get is at the second line of the code: " Error in if (!x$bytes) stop("no data to extract") :?? missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed".? mmapAfter <- mmap(cFile, mode=stcData, extractFUN=as.data.frame) mmapAfter[]; mmapAfter?[1,2] <- 2; mmapAfter?[]; munmap(mmapAfter) I also noted when I execute the following code that the??mmapData$filedesc?doesn't show the filename I specified in cFile. Is this not how it is supposed to be used? cFile <- 'C:/temp/testmapfile' dfrData <- data.frame(matrix(data=1, ncol=2, nrow=10)) mmapData <- as.mmap(dfrData, file=cFile) mmapData$filedesc Thanks for your help. Regards, ? Wolfgang Wu