Re: [R] .RData

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From: Peter Dalgaard BSA (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk)
Date: Mon 22 Apr 2002 - 21:37:21 EST 

Message-id: <x2bsccj766.fsf@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk>

Jason Turner <jasont@indigoindustrial.co.nz> writes:

> On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 09:56:05AM +0200, Aboubakar Maitournam wrote:
> > But now when I try to run R, I get the error message as follows :
> >
> > Error: an xdr real data read error occured
> > Fatal error: unable to restore saved data in .RData
>
> looks like your .RData file has been corrupted. The only way to start
> R in that directory is now to rename .RData, such as:
>
> mv .RData .RData.broken
>
> (or, en Francais ;-)
>
> mv .RData .RData.cassé
>
> It's unlikely you'll get the data back.
>
> > I have a version 1.3.1 of R which is under Linux Redhat.
>
> You should also upgrade. 1.4.1 has lots of nice new stuff.
> Read the bit about 1.4.x file formats for .RData before you
> do, though.

...although 1.5.0 will have even more nice stuff, and it's supposed to
come out next Monday (in the source version - allow a few more days
for binary distributions). 

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