On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 21:07:19 +1000 "Joyaa Antares" <jo...@goldcoastosteopathy.com.au> wrote:
> Dear John, > > Very many thanks. Your hypothesis was completely correct - I did > save the workspace, and this is what created the problem. As a > newbie, being part way through an "exercise", saving my workspace > intuitively seemed the right thing to do. Clearly not! So now, > before I closed R and Rcmdr, I copied and pasted from Rcmdr's script > file into a MS Word document, added a few comments (with preceding > #), and then closed without otherwise saving R's script, output, > workspace or markdown. I hope this is reasonable practice. If not, I > would be grateful for guidance on this. > > Once again, very many thanks. Joyaa > A potentially useful piece of advise is to avoid using MSWord as a text editor. I don't use Rcmdr, but text files, particularly CSVs are extremely useful in R as data files. Scripts should be pure text as well. Word demands that you keep this in mind at all times. It won't default to a simple text mode. You can use notepad, which MS provides as a stopgap, though I would recommend a more capable programmer's text editor such as Notepad++, a very useful GPL-licensed text editor for Windows, which can be downloaded for free. JWDougherty ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
