thanks Dr. R. this will come in handy in the future as I have a knack for hanging R. On Oct 2, 2012 12:01 PM, "Prof Brian Ripley" <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 02/10/2012 18:29, Bert Gunter wrote: > >> ?history >> >> in a fresh R session, to see what might be possible. I'll bet the >> answer is, "No, you're screwed," though. Nevertheless, maybe Linux >> experts can save you. >> > > Maybe not. On a Unix-alike see ?Signals. If you can find the pid of the > R process and it is still running (and not e.g. suspended), > > kill -USR1 <pid> > > will save the workspace and history. > > >> May the Force be with you. >> >> -- Bert >> >> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Mike Miller <mbmille...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I connected from my desktop Linux box to a Linux server using ssh in an >>> xterm, but that xterm was running in Xvnc. I'm running R on the server >>> in >>> that xterm (over ssh). Something went wrong with Xvnc that has caused >>> it to >>> hang, probably this bug: >>> >>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/**ubuntu/+source/vnc4/+bug/**819473<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vnc4/+bug/819473> >>> >>> So I can't get back to that ssh session or to R. I had done a bunch of >>> work >>> in R but the command history hasn't been written out. If I kill R, I >>> assume >>> the command history is gone. I wish I could somehow cause R to dump the >>> command history. Is there any way to tell the running R process to write >>> the history somewhere? >>> >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >>> Mike >>> >>> -- >>> Michael B. Miller, Ph.D. >>> Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research >>> Department of Psychology >>> University of Minnesota >>> >>> ______________________________**________________ >>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-help<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> >>> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/** >>> posting-guide.html <http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> >>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >>> >> >> >> >> > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, > http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~**ripley/<http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/> > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > ______________________________**________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-help<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/** > posting-guide.html <http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
