re: [R] foo.Rdata or foo.r?

2003-10-04 Thread Federico Calboli
Dear All, thanks for your clarifications. When I said that my .RData files load fines, I should have added that the files are images that contain objetcs, not code. In the bad ol' days under the thrall of the dark ruler (W2K), I would write all my code in text files, saved as foo.txt, and then cop

Re: [R] foo.RData or foo.r?

2003-10-04 Thread Martin Maechler
Just one thing to add to Jason's very helpful posting and explanations: > "Jason" == Jason Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Sat, 04 Oct 2003 07:30:03 +1200 writes: . . Jason> Short answer: anything that's R code *should* be Jason> named with .R at t

Re: [R] foo.RData or foo.r?

2003-10-03 Thread Jason Turner
Federico Calboli wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 13:16, Adaikalavan RAMASAMY wrote: *.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 b

RE: [R] foo.RData or foo.r?

2003-10-03 Thread Federico Calboli
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 13:16, Adaikalavan RAMASAMY wrote: > *.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. > >

RE: [R] foo.RData or foo.r?

2003-10-03 Thread Adaikalavan RAMASAMY
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

Re: [R] foo.RData or foo.r?

2003-10-03 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Federico Calboli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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

[R] foo.RData or foo.r?

2003-10-03 Thread Federico Calboli
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 t