> -----Original Message----- > From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf Of Duncan Murdoch > Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 5:30 PM > To: Gabriel Becker > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] Out-of-date manual or small bug in R CMD check? > > On 11-08-29 6:37 PM, Gabriel Becker wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I get a warning about an unsupported file type in the data directory during > > R CMD check (for R 2.13.1) if I use the save function to create an Rdata, > > but if I save the same object to a .rda file, no warning. > > > > Section 1.1.5 (pg 11 of the pdf) of the Writing R Extensions manual (2.13.1) > > appears to say that .Rdata files should be fine: > > > > " Data files can have one of three types as indicated by their extension: > > plain R code ('.R' or > > '.r'), tables ('.tab', '.txt', or '.csv', see ?data for the file formats, > > and note that '.csv' is not > > the standard14 CSV format), or save() images ('.RData' or '.rda'). " > > > > Am I misunderstanding some difference between .rda and .Rdata files in terms > > of the save calls, or should R CMD check and the extensions manual agree on > > this? > > .RData and .Rdata aren't the same.
Should that paragraph say that capitalization matters and that the following file name extensions are recognized TXT txt CSV csv tab r R rdata RData rda (and that others that vary only by case, such as TAB, Rdata and Rda, are not)? Bill Dunlap Spotfire, TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com > > Duncan Murdoch > > > > > Thanks for all your hard work. > > ~G > > > > SessionInfo: > > > > R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08) > > Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) > > > > locale: > > [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=C > > [3] LC_TIME=en_US.utf8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8 > > [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8 > > [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8 LC_NAME=C > > [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C > > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > > > > attached base packages: > > [1] grid stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods > > [8] base > > > > other attached packages: > > [1] gridSVG_0.5-10 ProteinVis_0.4 latticeExtra_0.6-18 > > [4] RColorBrewer_1.0-2 lattice_0.19-33 > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
