[R] Version of R in saved workspaces

[Prof Brian Ripley]

All you need to do is

Start R-2.3.1
load("CoolStats.RData")

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Soukup, Mat wrote:

> useRs and developeRs-
>
> Apologies for my naivety, but I just couldn't figure out how to open an
> old workspace (created using R 2.3.0) using R 2.3.0 and not R 2.4.0
> which is currently happening. For all I know this has always been the
> case, but I'm having a problem with a function that doesn't work in
> 2.4.0 but does work in 2.3.1 (function is in the process of being
> fixed). So I would ideally like to open my old workspaces with the
> version of R I used in creating the workspace and at the moment not in R
> 2.4.0 - though in a few weeks when the function is fixed I'm sure I'll
> love 2.4.0 as I have all previous versions:)
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> -Mat
>
> Steps to what I'm doing.
>
> 1. In R 2.3.1 I import data, manipulate it until my heart's content, and
> run some analyses.
> 2. I save the workspace to my local drive - name it CoolStats.RData.
> 3. I see R 2.4.0 is released and immediately download it and start
> playing with it only to find the above mentioned error.
> 4. Since error is going to take some time to fix, will work with R 2.3.1
> in the interim.
> 5. Open CoolStat.Rdata and when I type version I get the below.
>
>> version
>               _
> platform       i386-pc-mingw32
> arch           i386
> os             mingw32
> system         i386, mingw32
> status
> major          2
> minor          4.0
> year           2006
> month          10
> day            03
> svn rev        39566
> language       R
> version.string R version 2.4.0 (2006-10-03)
>
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