[R] double-click in RData file versus load( file )

[Gabor Grothendieck]

When you double click it does it start up the same version of R
as when you manually start R?

If you manually start R, load it, save it under another name and
then exit R and double click the new name does that work?

On Jan 26, 2008 1:01 PM, Cleber Nogueira Borges <klebyn at yahoo.com.br> wrote:
> hello all,
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> when I start up the R and I execute o follow code:
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>  > ls()
> character(0)
>  > x=123
>  > assign("test_x", x, envir = .GlobalEnv )
>  > ls()
> [1] "test_x" "x"
>  > setwd('C:\\R\\etc')
>  > save.image('TEST.RData')
>  > q('no')
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> I have two different behaviours:
>
> (a) - when I start up R again by "double click" in the file TEST.RData;
> (b) - when I start up R and load the file TEST.RData by window menu in
> Rgui or
> invoke by command ' load('C:\\R\\etc\\TEST.RData')
>
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> In case (a): I can't see my previous variables anymore!
>  > ls()
> character(0)
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> In case (b): I get my previous variables again!
>  > load('C:\\R\\etc\\test.rdata')
>  > ls()
> [1] "test_x" "x"
>  >
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> Is it the correct behaviour?
> the two way don't must be the same?
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> Thank for explanations...
>
> Cleber Borges
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