[R] Converting S-plus project folders to R

[Bosley, David]

Thanks for the reply. Sometimes R does crash (quits completely). Other times, it just hangs after giving an error box with some sort of exception code, even though it looks like it's still trying to execute the data.restore. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de] 
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 2:21 AM
To: Bosley, David
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Converting S-plus project folders to R



dbosley wrote:
> I have many S-plus project folders that I need to convert to R workspaces.
> For the smaller project folders (< 200MB), using "data.dump" with 
> "oldStyle = T" and "data.restore" (in the foreign package) within R 
> seems to work fine. However, I have several project folders that are quite large (~ 4GB).
> When I use this procedure to try to convert these project folders, R 
> always crashes when I perform the "data.restore" command. Does anyone 
> have any suggestions?

No suggestion, just to be sure:
I hope R gives an error message rather than a crash?

Best,
Uwe Ligges




> Thanks,
> Dave Bosley
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