I have been running a stm model, which took around a day to complete.

grant_fit <- stm(tidy_df_sparse,
             K = 350, init.type = "Spectral")

These are the variables in my R Work Space:

As I did not want to lose the work, I ran the following:

save.image(file = "My_Object.RData")

This has been running for about 90 mins, and has not complete.

Last time this happened, I left it for 12 hours and it still not complete, and I ended up losing around 4 days of running code as I exited and lost all my global variables.

The following is the current console, and as you can see, there is no stop execution symbol:

I am guessing this is very unusual for it to take to long to save.

Is there a way I can cancel the save.image(file = "My_Object.RData") to save even just one variable instead? or somehow keep my work?

Many thanks!