On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Jeffrey Horner wrote:
> Gamal Azim wrote:
>> Is it possible to remotely save an R session then
>> terminate R? Of course the destructive task after
>> 'then' is rather straightforward by itself.
>
> Yes. Sending the process a SIGUSR1 signal:
>
> $ kill -USR1 pid
>
> will save the global environment in the file .RData, but you'll need to
> remember the current working directory of the process to find it.
That is indeed what this is documented to do (and I mentioned in an
R-devel posting yesterday). Unfortunately it currently does not always
work: try it on a session running
try(repeat{1})
to see the problem.
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