Thank you, all!




>________________________________
> From: Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson@lancaster.ac.uk>
>To: Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil@dcn.davis.ca.us> 
>Cc: "Shi, Tao" <shidaxia@yahoo.com>; Ista Zahn <istazahn@gmail.com>; "r-help@r-project.org" <r-help@r-project.org> 
>Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 12:36 AM
>Subject: Re: [R] .rda vs. .RData
> 
>On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Jeff Newmiller
><jdnewmil@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
>> My bad, I was thinking of rds (?saveRDS). RData and rda are mentioned under ?data as alternate file extensions for the same data format. Sorry for posting without checking first.
>
>Understandable mistake. Confusingly similar file extensions are
>confusingly similar.
>
>I'd have called them .Rob for the current .rds file format (single
>object), and .Ros for the current .rda file format (>1 objects).
>
>[actually I would have called them .Rob or .Robject, and .Rwk or
>.Rworkspace but then I noticed that if you had a .Rob you had to have
>a .Ros so as not to favour one or other of the project originators :)]
>
>Barry
>
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