Does setting the environment variable TMPDIR, before starting R, to a directory on a bigger file system help? On Linux I get
% mkdir /tmp/RTMP-BILL % env TMPDIR=/tmp/RTMP-BILL R --quiet --vanilla > tempdir() [1] "/tmp/RTMP-BILL/Rtmppgowz4" > tempfile() [1] "/tmp/RTMP-BILL/Rtmppgowz4/file7ce36ec5cb1e" I don't know if there is an R-specific environment variable or startup flag for this. Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 10:52 AM, Kumar Mainali <kpmain...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to change where R stores the temporary files to my external > hard drive in my iMac. This is important because the temporary files R > creates are huge and I do not have enough available space in my internal > HD. Again, this is for macOS. > > This change has to be temporary. Later I need to use the usual location for > temp files in the internal HD. > > Thanks in advance, > Kumar Mainali > > -- > Postdoctoral Associate > Department of Biology > University of Maryland, College Park > ᐧ > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.