[R] .Rdata not loading

[Bill Dunlap]

Three things you might try using R (and show the results in this email
thread):

* load(verbose=TRUE, ".RData") # see how far it gets before stopping
* file.info(normalizePath(".RData")) # is this the file you think it is?
* dput(readBin(".RData", what=raw(), n=100))

The last will print some hex numbers that others may be able to interpret.
E.g., it may show that this .RData is not from a call to save() or
save.image().

-Bill

On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 11:19 AM Rich Shepard <rshepard using appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

> Each time I finish with a session I save the image. Today the saved image
> did not load and manually running 'load('.RData') fails:
> > load('.RData')
> Error in load(".RData") :
>    ReadItem: unknown type 0, perhaps written by later version of R
> >
>
> This has not happened before.
>
> Installed is R-4.1.2-x86_64-1_SBo and in the PWD I see:
> $ ll .RData*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 rshepard users 28074080 Dec 22 15:32 .RData
> -rw-r--r-- 1 rshepard users      134 Nov  4 14:57 .RDataTmp
> -rw-r--r-- 1 rshepard users        0 Nov  4 14:57 .RDataTmp1
>
> What might be keeping .RData from loading? Is there a maximum size for
> .RData? The /home partition has 270G available space so that's not
> limiting.
>
> How do I load it?
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
>
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