[R] Synchronzing workspaces

[Barry Rowlingson]

Eric Turkheimer wrote:
> How do people go about synchronizing multiple workspaces on different
> workstations?  I tend to wind up with projects spread around the various
> machines I work on.  I find that placing the directories on a server and
> reading them remotely tends to slow things down.

  If R were to store all its workspace data objects in individual files 
instead of one big .RData file, then you could use a revision control 
system like SVN.  Check out the data, work on it, check it in, then on 
another machine just update to get the changes.

  However SVN doesn't work too well for binary files - conflicts being 
hard to resolve without someone backing down - so maybe its not such a 
good idea anyway...

  On unix boxes and derivatives, you can keep things in sync efficiently 
with the 'rsync' command.  I think there are GUI addons for it, and 
Windows ports.

Barry