Can you use save.image() to rescue your results? I would try save.image(file="salvage.RData") and see if the file appears. Otherwise I would say you're probably out of luck.
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Ross Boylan wrote: > I have a hung session I would very much like to recover, since it has > some simulation results I haven't saved (that took about 12 hours to > create). Yes, I know, I should have saved while I had the chance. > > I tried to do a hist() in an environment without a plotting device. > My R session now seems to be hung; ^C doesn't do anything. I thought > it would timeout, but it has not so far. > > The details of this session's environment are a bit baroque. In case > it matters, here they are: > Running an xterm locally, used the "screen" program to start a shell. > Ran R. > Then, from a remote computer, used ssh to log in (without X forwarding > enabled). Grabbed the session by doing screen -d -r. (screen lets > you trade the controlling tty of a session; that's why I was using > it). > > After detaching and reattaching the session a couple of times (still > remote) I did > > hist(tres4$singles[["a"]]) > tres4$singles is a dataframe. > I can still type on the terminal, but get no response. > > R 1.7.1 on Debian. > > Is there any way to get the R session back without killing it? > > Thanks. > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > -- 620B Bartram Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Zoology Department, University of Florida http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/bolker Box 118525 (ph) 352-392-5697 Gainesville, FL 32611-8525 (fax) 352-392-3704 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
