[R] Make R 3.0 open .RData files

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 25/04/2013 17:15, Dimitri Liakhovitski wrote:
> Brian, how do I remove the relevant old Registry entries?

That is not an R question.   Our sysadmins do it ....

> Thank you!
> Dimitri
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
> <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk <mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>     On 25/04/2013 14:00, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>
>         On 13-04-25 8:33 AM, Dimitri Liakhovitski wrote:
>
>             Hello!
>
>             I have Windows 7 Enterprise and two versions of R installed:
>             2.15.3 and
>             3.0.0.
>             Before I had R 3.0 I made it a setting that all .RData files
>             - when I
>             double-click on them - were opened by R 2.15.3.
>             Now I want them to be opened by R 3.0 instead of R 2.15.3
>             (but I don't
>             want
>             to remove R 2.15.3. yet).
>
>             I right-click on some .RData file, select "Open with" -
>             "Choose default
>             program" and then click on "Browse".
>
>             I browse to the folder where my R 3.0 is installed, then to
>             the folder
>             "bin", then to the folder "x64" and select "Rgui.exe".
>             However, when R opens - or after I shut R down and then
>             double-click on
>             some .RData file and R opens, it is again R 2.15.3, not R3.0.
>
>             What am I doing wrong?
>
>             Of course, when I open R 3.0 directly, then it opens no problem.
>
>
>         This is really a question about Windows 7, not about R, but I would
>         guess you aren't telling it to make your choice permanent, or
>         perhaps
>         you are not allowed by your administrator to make permanent
>         changes to
>         file associations.  You should ask for local help.
>
>
>     We've encountered this for our student accounts, and think it is a
>     bug in Windows 7.  If you remove the relevant old Registry entries
>     first it should work.
>
>
>     --
>     Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk <mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
>     Professor of Applied Statistics,
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>
> --
> Dimitri Liakhovitski


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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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