[R] Saving Data

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 12-08-09 3:41 PM, Eric Kaufmann wrote:
> I have a researcher who is running a large R job The job is currently on
> 3725 iterations. The total number of iterations is 27500. Is there a way to
> kill this and recover the data that has been generated thus far?

Not likely, unless the process is writing it out to file.

It's conceivable that you could cause a debugger to interrupt the 
process (or cause the OS to abort it and dump memory to a file for post 
mortem debugging), but it's not at all easy to find anything useful in 
such a situation.

Duncan Murdoch

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> Thanks,
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> Eric
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