[R-SIG-Mac].RData on Mac OS X

[Don MacQueen]

In 10.1 in the Get Info dialog you can associate filename suffixes 
with applications.
This might work for double-clicking .Rdata. Of course, that only 
works if you can get the Finder to show it in the first place!

There probably are some shareware or freeware appliations that will 
cause files whose names begin with "." to be shown in the Finder. 
Browse http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/index.shtml. I thought 
there was a System or Finder preference for this, but I couldn't find 
it.

-Don

At 6:33 PM +0100 12/12/01, Christof Bigler wrote:
>I use the Carbon version of R.
>Is there any problem with renaming the .RData file e.g. in RData? 
>And is there any application on OS X like 'creator type convertor' 
>to make the RData file doubleclickable?
>Anyway, loading the workspace file .RData via menu works fine!
>
>Christof
>
>On Mittwoch, Dezember 12, 2001, at 01:06  Uhr, Stefano Iacus wrote:
>
>>You can see "invisible" files from the term window using commands like "ll"
>>
>>which version of R for mac are you using ? (Carbon or Darwin)
>>
>>stefano
>
>On Mittwoch, Dezember 12, 2001, at 01:02  Uhr, Kaspar Pflugshaupt wrote:
>
>>On 12.12.2001 12:18 Uhr, Christof Bigler wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>I recently updated my system from Mac OS 9.1 to OS X (Version 10.1).
>>>How can I use my currently invisible .RData files (created with R 1.3.1)
>>>on the new system?
>>>Is there a way to make these files visible/readable on Mac OS X?
>>
>>Hmm. I had no problem whatsoever reading my old OS 9 files, nor some Windows
>>_Rdata files and Linux .Rdata files... What are you trying to do? I usually
>>open files by
>>
>>>load("path/to/my/files/.RData")
>>
>>It shouldn't be a problem that the file is hidden. You just have to know
>>where it hides... :-)
>>
>>But then, I'm running R from the command line under X11 and I'm used to the
>>UNIX way of things. If all those file paths are irritating for you, you
>>could start up OS 9 and rename your files to something else (without a dot
>>at the beginning), then load by
>>
>>>load(file.choose())
>>
>>which ought to appeal to you :-)
>>
>>
>>Hope that helps (if not, write back)
>>
>>Kaspar Pflugshaupt


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Don MacQueen
Environmental Protection Department
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA, USA
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