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Hi all, I am having trouble loading a ff object previously saved in a different computer. I have both files .ffData and .RData, and the first of them is 13Mb large from which I know the data is therein. But when I try to ffload it, checkdir error: cannot create /home/_myUser_ Permission denied unable to process home/_myUser_/Rtempdir/ff1a831d500b8d.ff. and some warnings. In the original computer, this temporary file is deleted each time I exit R, and my expectation is that data is actually stored i...

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 02:41:58PM +0000, Cook, Malcolm wrote: > Might this combination serve the purpose: > * R session keeps an open handle on the tempdir it creates, > * whatever tempdir harvesting cron job the user has be made sensitive enough not to delete open files (including open directories) Good suggestion but doesn't work with the (increasingly popular)

.... This would have fixed the issue I ran into. Changing 'tempdir()' > to recreate the directory is another option. In the end I had decided that tempfile("foo", tmpdir = tempdir(check = TRUE)) is actually better self-documenting than tempfile("foo", checkDir = TRUE) which was my first inclination. Note again that currently, the checking is _off_ by default. I've just provided a tool -- which was relatively easy and platform independent! --- to do more (real and thought) experiments. Martin

...nto. Changing 'tempdir()' > > to recreate the directory is another option. > > In the end I had decided that > > tempfile("foo", tmpdir = tempdir(check = TRUE)) > > is actually better self-documenting than > > tempfile("foo", checkDir = TRUE) > > which was my first inclination. > > Note again that currently, the checking is _off_ by default. > I've just provided a tool -- which was relatively easy and > platform independent! --- to do more (real and thought) > experiments. This seems like the wrong appr...

...t;> > to recreate the directory is another option. >> >> In the end I had decided that >> >> tempfile("foo", tmpdir = tempdir(check = TRUE)) >> >> is actually better self-documenting than >> >> tempfile("foo", checkDir = TRUE) >> >> which was my first inclination. >> >> Note again that currently, the checking is _off_ by default. >> I've just provided a tool -- which was relatively easy and >> platform independent! --- to do more (real and thought) >> experiments. &gt...

...directory is another option. >>> >>> In the end I had decided that >>> >>> tempfile("foo", tmpdir = tempdir(check = TRUE)) >>> >>> is actually better self-documenting than >>> >>> tempfile("foo", checkDir = TRUE) >>> >>> which was my first inclination. >>> >>> Note again that currently, the checking is _off_ by default. >>> I've just provided a tool -- which was relatively easy and >>> platform independent! --- to do more (real and thought) &...