> > I don't think so, though you can guess: integers > are stored in 4 > bytes, floats in 8, etc.
I think this would be good if we only needed a rough estimate, but we need something precise. > One way to solve this problem would be to create a > connection that did > nothing except keep track of a file position, then > do the save to that > connection. However, it's not easy to define new > connection types. > Might be a nice package to write to allow such a > thing. That seems reasonable to me. I'll look into it; are there any resources at all for how to define new connection types? Thanks much, ===== Nathan Whitehouse Statistics/Programming Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 1-713-798-9029 cell: 1-512-293-5840 http://rho-project.org: rho- open source web services for R. http://franklin.imgen.bcm.tmc.edu: Shaw laboratory, bcm. ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
