Re: [R] .RData signature

2009-07-14 Thread Duncan Murdoch
stephenb wrote: any ideas? has anybody tried to recover RData files before? I have seen messages about that problem here before (see RSiteSearch(.RData corrupted) for a sampling), but I don't think I've seen any really satisfactory solutions. It would be nice to have an error tolerant

[R] .RData signature

2009-07-13 Thread stenka1
Is there a way to identify the beginning and end of an .RData file? I am trying to restore lost files on opensolaris where the table of contents is overwritten and will be reading the raw disk byte by byte. I looked at several files in hex and the end seems different, while most of

Re: [R] .RData signature

2009-07-13 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 7/13/2009 3:38 PM, sten...@go.com wrote: Is there a way to identify the beginning and end of an .RData file? I am trying to restore lost files on opensolaris where the table of contents is overwritten and will be reading the raw disk byte by byte. I looked at several files in hex

Re: [R] .RData signature

2009-07-13 Thread stephenb
any ideas? has anybody tried to recover RData files before? Duncan Murdoch-2 wrote: On 7/13/2009 3:38 PM, sten...@go.com wrote: Is there a way to identify the beginning and end of an .RData file? I am trying to restore lost files on opensolaris where the table of contents is