Agreed -- very cool trick. Thanks Prof Ripley Michael
On Oct 2, 2012, at 9:59 PM, steven mosher <mosherste...@gmail.com> wrote: > thanks Dr. R. this will come in handy in the future as I have a knack for > hanging R. > On Oct 2, 2012 12:01 PM, "Prof Brian Ripley" <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > >> On 02/10/2012 18:29, Bert Gunter wrote: >> >>> ?history >>> >>> in a fresh R session, to see what might be possible. I'll bet the >>> answer is, "No, you're screwed," though. Nevertheless, maybe Linux >>> experts can save you. >> >> Maybe not. On a Unix-alike see ?Signals. If you can find the pid of the >> R process and it is still running (and not e.g. suspended), >> >> kill -USR1 <pid> >> >> will save the workspace and history. >> >> >>> May the Force be with you. >>> >>> -- Bert >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Mike Miller <mbmille...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I connected from my desktop Linux box to a Linux server using ssh in an >>>> xterm, but that xterm was running in Xvnc. I'm running R on the server >>>> in >>>> that xterm (over ssh). Something went wrong with Xvnc that has caused >>>> it to >>>> hang, probably this bug: >>>> >>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/**ubuntu/+source/vnc4/+bug/**819473<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vnc4/+bug/819473> >>>> >>>> So I can't get back to that ssh session or to R. I had done a bunch of >>>> work >>>> in R but the command history hasn't been written out. If I kill R, I >>>> assume >>>> the command history is gone. I wish I could somehow cause R to dump the >>>> command history. Is there any way to tell the running R process to write >>>> the history somewhere? >>>> >>>> Thanks in advance. >>>> >>>> Mike >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Michael B. Miller, Ph.D. >>>> Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research >>>> Department of Psychology >>>> University of Minnesota >>>> >>>> ______________________________**________________ >>>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-help<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> >>>> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/** >>>> posting-guide.html <http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> >>>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> -- >> Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk >> Professor of Applied Statistics, >> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~**ripley/<http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/> >> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) >> 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) >> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 >> >> ______________________________**________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-help<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/** >> posting-guide.html <http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.
