[R] Corrupt .RData

Alex Ploner ploner at stat.boku.ac.at
Mon Dec 10 15:14:39 CET 2001


I'm using R 1.3.1 on a Windows NT 4.0 machine. As you might
guess my machine crashes on me from time to time :-| So far,
forcing a reboot via the Taskmanager has worked reasonably
well: any open R session would enquire politely whether to
save, and do so if requested.

This time, it has not worked out. I get a 'Fatal Error:
unable to restore saved data in .RData' message and
R terminates. Trying to load the file via load() yields 
'Error in load: NewReadItem: unknown type 0' 

Apparently, the system shutdown has hurt the .RData file
somehow. Is there a way of restoring the information at
least partially without too much trouble? As is common
under these circumstances, I have been both working
extensively and not saving sufficiently on this .RData
recently. Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

alexander


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Alexander Ploner
Applied Statistics
Univ. f. Agricultural Sciences
Gregor Mendel Str. 33
1180 Vienna, Austria, Europe
Tel.: +43-1-47654-5063
E-Mail: ploner at stat.boku.ac.at

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