[R] [FORGED] Re: R commander (Rcmdr) won't start [SOLVED]

[Rolf Turner]

On 8/12/19 9:35 pm, gabriele pallotti wrote:

> Dear John,
> thank you for your prompt reply. An inexperienced user like me tends to see
> the .Rdata folder like the document folder for other programs, and, as one
> doesn't have to delete the document folder when updating Libreoffice, tends
> to think the same for R.

<SNIP>

You should be aware that .RData (note the upper case "D") is *not* a 
"folder" (or "directory" in the parlance of civilised, i.e. Linux, 
users).  Rather it is a single binary *file*.  It behaves like a 
directory in some sense in that it "contains" (or may contain)  one or 
may R objects which similarly are "like" individual files.  However 
there is a distinction and it can be important to keep this distinction 
in mind in order to understand subtle phenomena that may appear.

cheers,

Rolf Turner

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