[R] Prevent saving the workspace while running a script in batch mode

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Sun Mar 8 16:32:08 CET 2009


?quit   # ,save="no"

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DW

On Mar 8, 2009, at 11:19 AM, Jim_S wrote:

>
> Dear R-user,
>
> I'm running a certain R script in DOS batch mode. Is there a way to  
> prevent
> R from saving the workspace once this script is finished? I'm asking  
> this
> because the resulting .RData file has the size of >70MB. I don't  
> need this
> file since my script already writes the required output and this  
> makes the
> whole process very slow (>15 minutes each time)
>
>
> FYI, my script:
>
> setwd("M:/Program Files/Soskat/Models")
> library(randomForest)
> CT <- read.table("CRD.txt",header=TRUE,sep="\t")
> memory.limit(1000)
> filename <-
> paste 
> ("CR",read.table("DTE.txt",header=FALSE,sep="\t"),".Rdata",sep="")
> load(filename)
> write.table(predict(model, newdata = CT, type =  
> "response"),file="CRP.txt")
>
>
> and my batch line:
>
> e:\progra~1\R\bin\R CMD BATCH m:\progra~1\soskat\models\CR.r
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jim
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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT




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