I wonder if this question should be directed to the package
maintainer?
Best wishes,
Andrew
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 02:31:51PM +0100, Jannis wrote:
> Just did some more testing.....May the problem be due to the fact that I am
> using a windows machine? I just ran the same code on a Linux machine and
> everything worked fine.
>
> If windows (or the file system of the disk) caused the problem, is there any
> way to resolve it? I know that using Linux would be a better choice ;-) but
> unfortunatley this in no option at the moment....
>
>
> Best
> Jannis
>
> --- Jannis <bt_jan...@yahoo.de> schrieb am Mi, 4.5.2011:
>
> > Von: Jannis <bt_jan...@yahoo.de>
> > Betreff: [R] Problems saving ff objects
> > An: r-help@r-project.org
> > Datum: Mittwoch, 4. Mai, 2011 13:17 Uhr
> > Dear list,
> >
> >
> > I am trying to understand and use the ff package. As I had
> > some problems saving some ff objects, and as I did not fully
> > manage to understand the whole concept of *.ff, *.ffData and
> > *.RData with the help of the documentation, I tried to
> > reproduce the examples from the help of ffsave.
> >
> > When I ran, however : (copied from the help)
> >
> > message("let's create some ff objects")
> > n <- 8e3
> > a <- ff(sample(n, n, TRUE), vmode="integer",
> > length=n, filename="d:/tmp/a.ff")
> > b <- ff(sample(255, n, TRUE), vmode="ubyte",
> > length=n, filename="d:/tmp/b.ff")
> > x <- ff(sample(255, n, TRUE), vmode="ubyte",
> > length=n, filename="d:/tmp/x.ff")
> > y <- ff(sample(255, n, TRUE), vmode="ubyte",
> > length=n, filename="d:/tmp/y.ff")
> > z <- ff(sample(255, n, TRUE), vmode="ubyte",
> > length=n, filename="d:/tmp/z.ff")
> > df <- ffdf(x=x, y=y, z=z)
> > rm(x,y,z)
> >
> > message("save all of them")
> > ffsave.image("d:/tmp/x")
> >
> > I get:
> >
> > Error in ffsave(list = ls(envir = .GlobalEnv, all.names =
> > TRUE), file = outfile, :
> > the previous files do not match the rootpath (case
> > sensitive)
> >
> >
> > Whats wrong here? Should this not be working as I did not
> > change anything in the code?
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jannis
> >
> >
> > > sessionInfo()
> > R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
> > Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
> >
> > locale:
> > [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> > [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
> > [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> > [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> >
> > [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
> >
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] tools stats
> > graphics grDevices utils
> > datasets methods
> > [8] base
> >
> > other attached packages:
> > [1] ff_2.2-2 bit_1.1-7 rj_0.5.2-1
> >
> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> > [1] rJava_0.8-8
> >
> >
> >
> >
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