'sink' would probably not help since it is just capturing output to the console and you are still doing the binary to character conversion. 'save' helps to avoid that. You might want to see if there is any difference with using compression (which I think is the default for 'save') as opposed to writing directly. This is a time vs. space tradeoff and with the size of your object, you may want compression, but try it and see if it makes a difference.
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Diann Prosser <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you, Jim! I was just trying this as you wrote. Testing it on a small > sample - it seems to work! > I am curious - I removed the data that was stored in memory (using rm()), > and checked to see that it was gone using ls() - and it was; but I didn't > see a concurrent reduction in the Memory Usage on my Performance Window. Did > the rm() actually free up memory (it didn't seem to)? > > Many thanks for your response! > > PS - for any interested, the sink function did not help. My vector was > longer that what is printed, so when I checked the file, only part of the > data was there. But save definitely seems to be the way to go here. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/writing-output-directly-to-file-sink-tp4506432p4507059.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] 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. -- Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
