Make a reproducible example that focuses on the save/load aspect of the size
problem. You may need to experiment with which variables need to be in the save
file in order to trigger the behavior. Your example might have to involve
sending us a link to a large file, but that size may dissuade busy experts from
tackling it so paring it down by experimentation could be in your best interest.
There is some expected behavior that can lead to larger files than the original
in-memory data, but offhand I am unaware of any explanation for those files
then using less space when re-loaded into memory than they occupy on disk.
On February 18, 2019 11:51:11 AM PST, Lars Velten <lars.vel...@embl.de> wrote:
>Dear list,
>I noticed an extremely odd behavior... I have a rather complex shiny
>app which allows the user to store his/her state which internally
>obviously triggers as call to save as follows
>save(list=c("plots","gates","populations","cg",
>"genelists","colorscores", "proj", "actds"),file=fname)
>this was all working fine until some time ago (?!?) files created by
>this command became several hundred MBs big... even thought the
>cumulative size of all objects in memory after load() is in the 10s of
>kB.
>Changing to
>dump(list=c("plots","gates","populations","cg",
>"genelists","colorscores", "proj", "actds"),file=fname)
>solved the problem, output was then only 10s of kB.
>(Why/when) is this behavior intended?
>Best wishes,
>Lars
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