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...should be an option so that it is setable (in the profile if you want). One simply specifies the number of commands that are executed between calls to save. It won't be incremental; I'll just dump the output of ls(). I think that the file name should not be .RData but rather something like .RAutoSave (so it's there if you need it but you don't get it on startup unless you ask for it). Comments???? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help&qu...

...nteractive mode)? Something like (a crude version - perhaps better to use system facilities like cron under *ix): options(autosave=10)#Autosaves every 10 minutes or later then in the code where *when awaiting input only* while (noinput){ if(current.time()>=save.time){ save.image('.Rautosave') save.time<-current.time() } } The >= would be necessary because R might be doing something at save.time and by having the autosave check done only when doing nothing else would save valuable clock cycles and possible confusion on restoring. You wouldn't want to tie up the pr...