[R] Help with R

[peter dalgaard]

On Oct 15, 2010, at 12:37 , Philipp Pagel wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 09:57:21AM +0200, Muteba Mwamba, John wrote:
> 
>> "FATAL ERROR: unable to restore saved data in .RDATA"
> 
> Without more information it's hard to know what exactly went wrong.
> 
> Anyway, the message most likely means that the .RData file got
> corrupted. Deleting it should solve the problem. Note that this means
> that you will get an empty workspace and have to recreate whatever
> data was in it before.

Renaming the file is a better idea. Then at least you have some chance of being able to load() it into an R Session and recover things from the workspace. No guarantees, though.

-pd

> 
>> I decided to uninstall the copy (a R2.11.0) and installed a new
>> version (2.11.1) but I'm still receiving the same message. When I
>> click OK the closes.
> 
> Re-installation of R will most likely not fix this (unless a change in
> the format of the .RData files had occurred - but to my knowledge no
> such thing has happened, recently.)
> 
> cu
> 	Philipp
> 
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> Dr. Philipp Pagel
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