[R] Running R away from windows (to Linux)

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Derek Eder wrote:

> I want to migrate my R workspace databases (e.g., .Rdata) from Windows to Linux.  The R help file for "save" says that "[a]ll R platforms use the XDR representation of binary objects in binary save-d files, and these are portable across all R platforms."
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> Is it is simple as that?  Copy the Windows .Rdata file to the Linux .ext3 file system?

Yes. I do it all the time.

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