Emili Tortosa-Ausina wrote: > Hi all, > > I've recently upgraded to R version 2.1.1 and when trying to inspect the > contents of many packages in the library (for instance library\MASS\R) I've > realized wordpad, or the notepad, won't open them since they have *.RDB and > *.RDX extensions which these editors cannot recognize. > > However, libraries in previous versions of R did not have these extensions > and I could inspect the contents of each package without any trouble. > > I've been searching for this thread but did not find it.
Well, these are the lazy loading databases which have been introduced in R-1.9.0, AFAIR. There is a corresponding article in R News. Just download the source package in order to look at the code. Uwe Ligges > Thank you! > > Emili > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html