[R] .RData

Peter Dalgaard BSA p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Mon Apr 22 13:37:21 CEST 2002


Jason Turner <jasont at indigoindustrial.co.nz> writes:

> On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 09:56:05AM +0200, Aboubakar Maitournam wrote:
> > But now when I try to run R, I get the error message as follows :
> > 
> > Error: an xdr real data read error occured
> > Fatal error: unable to restore saved data in .RData
> 
> looks like your .RData file has been corrupted.  The only way to start
> R in that directory is now to rename .RData, such as:
> 
> mv .RData .RData.broken
> 
> (or, en Francais  ;-)
> 
> mv .RData .RData.cassé
> 
> It's unlikely you'll get the data back.
> 
> > I have a version 1.3.1 of R which is under Linux Redhat. 
> 
> You should also upgrade.  1.4.1 has lots of nice new stuff.
> Read the bit about 1.4.x file formats for .RData before you
> do, though.

...although 1.5.0 will have even more nice stuff, and it's supposed to
come out next Monday (in the source version - allow a few more days
for binary distributions).

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