[R] Need r help asap

[Duncan Murdoch]

Hannah:

What Jeff says is good advice.  If you can't follow it (e.g. no local 
computer consultant available), then I'd look in your Time Machine 
backups.

Macs can be set up to do regular backups, and if yours was set up like 
that, you might be able to recover a version of your file from a recent 
backup.  You run the "Time Machine" app (which is in "Applications"), 
then choose the folder where your file should be, and then you can step 
back through previous versions of the files in that folder.

Duncan Murdoch

On 2025-05-30 3:48 a.m., Jeff Newmiller via R-help wrote:
> I am sorry to hear that you are having difficulty with your computer. However, this mailing list is about the R programming language..  not about text editors or about file recovery. I suggest you hire a local computer consultant familiar with file recovery on your operating system.
> 
> There may be some help to be had by consulting at a forum specializing in your editor software (RStudio?), but the more you use your computer in the process of looking for your file, the more chance there is that your file could get overwritten, which is why I recommend getting direct professional assistance rather than following up on guesses made by random internet users.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> On May 29, 2025 1:36:58 PM PDT, Hannah Gurholt <hgurholt using gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I made sure to save my rmarkdown file before updating my mac but once I tried to open up my file after it was done updating it gave me some sort of option whether to replace the unsaved version or something and I believe I clicked no and now the rmarkdown file is completely wiped and I can’t find a way to recover anything. Please help! This was for a manuscript that was almost ready for submission and I am really desperate to get it back.
>>
>> Hannah
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