On 8/12/19 9:35 pm, gabriele pallotti wrote:
Dear John,
thank you for your prompt reply. An inexperienced user like me tends to see
the .Rdata folder like the document folder for other programs, and, as one
doesn't have to delete the document folder when updating Libreoffice, tends
to think the same for R.
<SNIP>
You should be aware that .RData (note the upper case "D") is *not* a
"folder" (or "directory" in the parlance of civilised, i.e. Linux,
users). Rather it is a single binary *file*. It behaves like a
directory in some sense in that it "contains" (or may contain) one or
may R objects which similarly are "like" individual files. However
there is a distinction and it can be important to keep this distinction
in mind in order to understand subtle phenomena that may appear.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
--
Honorary Research Fellow
Department of Statistics
University of Auckland
Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276
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