[R] Problems loading an S-Plus object

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Morten Hønsen wrote:

> I have inherited some S-Plus code and objects that I am trying to get to work 
> in R.
>
> The object files (3 __i files and one ___nonfi file) are stored in a folder 
> (named _Model), but when I try to use "attach("c:/_Model")" I get an error 
> saying "Error in readChar(con, 5L, useBytes = TRUE) : cannot open the 
> connection"
>
> Any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated.

RTFM on attach() (it says nothing about attaching directories), look at 
read.S in package foreign, which might help but probably not if this is a 
recent version of 'S-Plus'.

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