You could try saving prior to quitting in the future if you want to try those arguments.
On 9/3/07, Paul August <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for sharing your experience. In my case, the involved machines are > Windows Vista, XP and 2000. Not sure whether it contributes to my problem or > not. I will look into this further. > > I just noticed the two arguments ascii and compress for save. However, my > .RData file was created by q() with "yes". The manual says that q() is > equivalent to save(list = ls(all=TRUE), file = ".RData"). There seems to be > no way to set ascii or compression of save through q function, unless the q > function is replaced explicitly with save(list = ls(all=TRUE), file = > ".RData", ascii = T). > > Paul. > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Paul August <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 11:24:31 PM > Subject: Re: [R] Synchronzing workspaces > > I haven't had similar experience but note that save has ascii= > and compress= arguments. You could check if varying those > parameter values makes a difference. > > On 8/30/07, Paul August <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I used to work on several computers and to use a flash drive to synchronize > > the workspace on each machine before starting to work on it. I found that > > .RData always caused some trouble: Often it is corrupted even though there > > is no error in copying process. Does anybody have the similar experience? > > > > Paul. > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Barry Rowlingson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Eric Turkheimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 9:43:57 AM > > Subject: Re: [R] Synchronzing workspaces > > > > Eric Turkheimer wrote: > > > How do people go about synchronizing multiple workspaces on different > > > workstations? I tend to wind up with projects spread around the various > > > machines I work on. I find that placing the directories on a server and > > > reading them remotely tends to slow things down. > > > > If R were to store all its workspace data objects in individual files > > instead of one big .RData file, then you could use a revision control > > system like SVN. Check out the data, work on it, check it in, then on > > another machine just update to get the changes. > > > > However SVN doesn't work too well for binary files - conflicts being > > hard to resolve without someone backing down - so maybe its not such a > > good idea anyway... > > > > On unix boxes and derivatives, you can keep things in sync efficiently > > with the 'rsync' command. I think there are GUI addons for it, and > > Windows ports. > > > > Barry > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > > > Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when. > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.