R itself _does_ create a temp directory each time it starts. Rpy2 has placeholders for custom callback cleaners, and it might interfere with the default cleanup made by an R console; this is currently a little-used (and little-documented) features and I can't tell with looking more into it. You could quickly fix it by writing a custom cleaner that does delete that directory.
L. PS: The current release for rpy2 is 2.2.2. You do want to upgrade. On 2011-09-21 17:52, Christian Hudon wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running a server process that uses rpy2, on a VM with limited disk > space. Every time the process is restarted, a Rtmp directory is created > under /tmp. (Example name for the directory: "RtmpFThW0A"... this looks > similar to the result of calling the R tempdir() function.) This is a > problem for me, as said temporary directories accumulate and slowly fill > up the disk space. > > I've narrowed it down to the following simple Python code, which will > create said temporary directory for me (with rpy2 2.1.3): > > import rpy2.rinterface > rpy2.rinterface.initr() > > However, I can't find what's causing the temporary directory to be > created in the rpy2 source code. (Starting R by itself doesn't create a > temporary directory.) > > I have a couple of questions... Is this directory created by rpy2? If > so, where? Is it possible to disable its creation, or at least clean it > up on exit? If not, can I remove said tempdir without interfering with rpy2? > > Thanks in advance, > > Christian > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 > _______________________________________________ > rpy-list mailing list > rpy-list@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rpy-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ rpy-list mailing list rpy-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rpy-list
