That is a nice reply, Duncan, and an excellent explanation of why
.Rdata has no name! I also like the final sentence.
I would only add:
If you're sane, and want to stay sane, think about not using Windows.
Hi Ted,
10 years ago, I have stopped running Windows for production. I only keep
Windows for testing. This is a virtual machine running Oracle VBox as
virtualizer with Ubuntu 1010 as host. Win7 is running as VM. In certain
occasion we still need Windows temporarily such RExcel, a Windows application.
I found R and Calc later. RBloomberg is also a Windows application. Very
soon
a Linux/Unix version will be available, etc. Some enterprises still keep
Windows as OS in office. In order to survive we have to follow.
B.R.
Stephen
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From: ted.hard...@wlandres.net ted.hard...@wlandres.net
To: r-help@r-project.org
Sent: Mon, November 15, 2010 12:58:51 AM
Subject: Re: [R] How to permanently remove [Previously saved workspace re
On 14-Nov-10 16:43:18, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 14/11/2010 10:42 AM, Joshua Wiley wrote:
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 3:40 AM, Stephen Liusati...@yahoo.com
wrote:
Hi Joshua,
list.files(path = getwd(), all.files = TRUE)
[3]
.RData
[4]
.Rhistory
.Rhistory and .RDate are there.
Note that these files start with a .
But I can't find .RDate on Windows Explorer. Only .Rhistory is
there.
This is likely a feature of Windows Explorercertain types of
files are hidden by default (like those that start with .).
That's not true: it's Unix ls that hides filenames starting with a
..
Windows Explorer does hide some files, but I don't think it is ever
based on the name, it's based on the attributes.
What Windows Explorer does that is incredibly stupid is that (by
default) it hides file extensions for known file types. Generally
.RData will be registered as a known file type. Exporer will cut off
the .RData part the name of a file with that extension, and only show
the first part of the name. Since the file .RData has no starting
part of a name, it will be listed with a blank name.
What you should do (and what Microsoft should set the default to) is to
turn off this bad policy of listing filenames incorrectly. I don't
remember how to do it in Windows 7 or Vista, but on XP, here's how:
Go into Explorer in some folder.
Click on the Tools menu, then the Folder Options... choice.
Choose the View tab.
About 10 choices down within Files and Folders, you'll see Hide
Extensions for Known File Types. Make sure this is *not* checked.
If you're sane, you'll then click on the button Apply to all folders,
but you might just want to click on OK to try it out on one folder
first.
Duncan Murdoch
That is a nice reply, Duncan, and an excellent explanation of why
.Rdata has no name! I also like the final sentence.
I would only add:
If you're sane, and want to stay sane, think about not using Windows.
Ted.
E-Mail: (Ted Harding) ted.hard...@wlandres.net
Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861
Date: 14-Nov-10 Time: 16:58:49
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