On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 13:16, Adaikalavan RAMASAMY wrote: > *.R is for the script file and is ASCII type. > *.Rdata (or sometimes *.rda) is the usual extension for R data and > contains binary information. > > If you try to cat a *.Rdata file, you will end up with gibberish as it > is binary. > > Try opening *.Rdata with emacs if you can. Emacs will recognise it as a > fundamental type and not as an ESS type. There might be ways to > associate Rdata files with ESS. But other people might not consider > reading your "*.Rdata" files. > I dunno about this, but if I open R under emacs first and then I load my foo.RData, it loads fine. Mind you, I am totally new to emacs, I even had to install ESS from RPM, as I could not figure out how to do it from source...
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