[R] Synchronzing workspaces

[Liaw, Andy]

See the example in ?save on how to set defaults via options().

Andy

From: Gabor Grothendieck
 
> You could try saving prior to quitting in the future if you 
> want to try
> those arguments.
> 
> On 9/3/07, Paul August <paulaugust2003 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for sharing your experience. In my case, the 
> involved machines are Windows Vista, XP and 2000. Not sure 
> whether it contributes to my problem or not. I will look into 
> this further.
> >
> > I just noticed the two arguments ascii and compress for 
> save. However, my .RData file was created by q() with "yes". 
> The manual says that q() is equivalent to save(list = 
> ls(all=TRUE), file = ".RData"). There seems to be no way to 
> set ascii or compression of save through q function, unless 
> the q function is replaced explicitly with save(list = 
> ls(all=TRUE), file = ".RData", ascii = T).
> >
> > Paul.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>
> > To: Paul August <paulaugust2003 at yahoo.com>
> > Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 11:24:31 PM
> > Subject: Re: [R] Synchronzing workspaces
> >
> > I haven't had similar experience but note that save has ascii=
> > and compress= arguments.  You could check if varying those
> > parameter values makes a difference.
> >
> > On 8/30/07, Paul August <paulaugust2003 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > I used to work on several computers and to use a flash 
> drive to synchronize the workspace on each machine before 
> starting to work on it. I found that .RData always caused 
> some trouble: Often it is corrupted even though there is no 
> error in copying process. Does anybody have the similar experience?
> > >
> > > Paul.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----
> > > From: Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk>
> > > To: Eric Turkheimer <ent3c at virginia.edu>
> > > Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 9:43:57 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [R] Synchronzing workspaces
> > >
> > > 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
> > >
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