Re: [R] Corrupting files while copying (was Re: saveRDS() and readRDS() Why? [solved, pretty much anyway])

2018-11-30 Thread Patrick Connolly
I'd be interested to know if anyone can replicate what I experienced. VBox version: 5.1.22 r115126 (Qt5.6.2) Versions of R and OSes below: On Sun, 18-Nov-2018 at 09:44PM +1300, Patrick Connolly wrote: |> Sequence of steps: |> |> Using R-3.5.1 and Windows 7 with the latest Rstudio, shared

Re: [R] Corrupting files while copying (was Re: saveRDS() and readRDS() Why? [solved, pretty much anyway])

2018-11-18 Thread Patrick Connolly
Sequence of steps: Using R-3.5.1 and Windows 7 with the latest Rstudio, shared directory as working directory on Virtual Box host machine: > x <- airquality > saveRDS(x, file = "x.rds") > saveRDS(x, file = "y.rds") On guest machine Mint Linux 17.3, KDE desktop, copy x.rds & y.rds to working

Re: [R] Corrupting files while copying (was Re: saveRDS() and readRDS() Why? [solved, pretty much anyway])

2018-11-15 Thread Ista Zahn
Hi Patrick, I think it would help to start from the beginning and give complete (but concise!) replication instructions, including telling us what host and gest operating systems you are using (including the versions), the version of virtualbox you used, and exactly what steps are needed to

[R] Corrupting files while copying (was Re: saveRDS() and readRDS() Why? [solved, pretty much anyway])

2018-11-13 Thread Patrick Connolly
Thanks William, I've used Dolphin for years and never encountered that phenomenon. Even so, that description doesn't fit what's going on here. 1.7 kilobytes is hardly a 'large directory'. The problem seems to be with the way VirtualBox mounts directories which isn't an R issue, nor is the fact