*.R is for the script file and is ASCII type. *.Rdata (or sometimes *.rda) is the usual extension for R data and contains binary information.
If you try to cat a *.Rdata file, you will end up with gibberish as it is binary. Try opening *.Rdata with emacs if you can. Emacs will recognise it as a fundamental type and not as an ESS type. There might be ways to associate Rdata files with ESS. But other people might not consider reading your "*.Rdata" files. -- Adaikalavan Ramasamy -----Original Message----- From: Federico Calboli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 7:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] foo.RData or foo.r? Dear All, I suspect this is kind of dumb, but when I was under the thrall of the dark lord (read, using a W2K box), all my work in R files came out as foo.RData. I moved on to GNU/Linux, and all the old .RData files keep on working as they used. No problems in loading and stuff. But I use R from the terminal. Assuming I decide to switch to emacs, do I need to save my work as foo.r? what about my old files? shall I simply "mv" them to foo.r? all in all, foo.Rdata and foo.r, does it make any difference? Regards, Federico -- ================================= Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Biology University College London Darwin Building Gower Street London WC1E 6BT tel: 020 7679 4395 fax: 020 7679 7096 f.calboli at ucl.ac.uk ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
