Hi Martin,
I think this is the most likely reason given that the name in the
DESCRIPTION file does NOT have a version number. Even so, it is very
easy to misname a file and then delete it/change its name (as I've
done here) and I hope current versions of R would not cause this
problem.
Jarrod,
Noting your exchange with Martin, Martin brings up a point that certainly I
missed, which is that somehow the tilde ('~') character got into the chain of
events. As Martin noted, on Linuxen/Unixen (including OSX), the tilde, when
used in the context of file name globbing, refers to
I doubt if it will be helpful for Jarrod, but when I hear stories like this,
I remember reading about a similar event and a remarkable partial recovery
here:
http://www.justpasha.org/folk/rm.html
http://www.justpasha.org/folk/rm.htmlKevin
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Marc Schwartz
Hi Marc,
Thanks for the info on recovery - most of it can pieced together from
backups but a quick, cheap and easy method of recovery would have been
nicer.
My main concern is that this could happen again and that the bug is
not limited to R 2.9. I would think that an accidental carriage
On 28/07/2010 10:01 AM, Jarrod Hadfield wrote:
Hi Marc,
Thanks for the info on recovery - most of it can pieced together from
backups but a quick, cheap and easy method of recovery would have been
nicer.
My main concern is that this could happen again and that the bug is
not limited to
-project.org]
On Behalf Of Duncan Murdoch
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 11:12 AM
To: Jarrod Hadfield
Cc: r-help@r-project.org; Marc Schwartz
Subject: Re: [R] [Rd] R CMD build wiped my computer
On 28/07/2010 10:01 AM, Jarrod Hadfield wrote:
Hi Marc,
Thanks for the info on recovery - most of it can
On Jul 28, 2010, at 3:18 PM, Bos, Roger wrote:
Ubuntu also uses ~ as a backup file syntax, but Ubuntu has a trash can
where deleted files are located, so it would be easy to restore them. I
would be surprised if Fedora didn't also have a trash can.
snip
Roger,
It does, but that is only if
To: Jarrod Hadfield
Cc: r-help@r-project.org; Marc Schwartz
Subject: Re: [R] [Rd] R CMD build wiped my computer
On 28/07/2010 10:01 AM, Jarrod Hadfield wrote:
Hi Marc,
Thanks for the info on recovery - most of it can pieced together from
backups but a quick, cheap and easy method
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 28/07/2010 10:01 AM, Jarrod Hadfield wrote:
Hi Marc,
Thanks for the info on recovery - most of it can pieced together from
backups but a quick, cheap and easy method of recovery would have been
nicer.
My main concern is that this could
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