yes,
It was somewhat confusing because of the documentation for
save.image(file = ".RData", version = NULL, ascii = FALSE,
compress = !ascii, safe = TRUE)
which had me thinking that RData was the 'right' extension
anyway, works like a charm now
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:29 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net>wrote:
> cross-posting to R-SIG-Mac
>
>
> On Aug 15, 2010, at 4:07 PM, steven mosher wrote:
>
> I think it came down to my actual program having a function that saved the
>> objects it was passed with a .RData extension as opposed to .Rdata
>>
>
> I guess you have figured out that if you save with <name>.Rdata or
> <name>.Rdta and try to load() as "<name>.RData", the combined R-MacOS
> software is not going to give you what you expect. If on the other hand you
> had click-hold-dragged those .RData files to the R icon on your Dock, you
> may have gotten the expected behavior.
>
> You can change the file extensions which will be recognized (although not
> necessarily displayed with the proper R-icon inFfinder windows) by changing
> the default programs in a GetInfo window from the system.
>
> I also checked to see what would happen if I changed the extension to
> ".junk" and then dragged .... Turns out that the R interpreter searches for
> a file named test.r and when it finds it it loads it into an editing window.
> (That was _not_ what I expected.)
>
> --
> David.
>
>
>> Rechecking the whole thing.
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Joshua Wiley <jwiley.ps...@gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>>
>> Steven,
>>>
>>> I have exited my R session and restarted and I can load the file
>>> without issue. I have also tried loading the saved data on some older
>>> versions of R (2.10.1 and 2.11.0) and Windows (XP). Have you tried
>>> recreating the test object, ensuring that it is not NULL itself,
>>> resaving it, and then see if loading it works better?
>>>
>>> Josh
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 12:06 AM, steven mosher <mosherste...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Did you exit R and then return?
>>>> fname<-"test.Rdata"
>>>> full<-file.path("Example",fname,fsep=.Platform$file.sep)
>>>> full
>>>> [1] "Example/test.Rdata"
>>>> load(full)
>>>> test
>>>> NULL
>>>>
>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>>>
>>>> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
>>>> x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0
>>>> locale:
>>>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>>>> attached base packages:
>>>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>>> [1] tools_2.11.1
>>>> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Joshua Wiley <jwiley.ps...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That worked for me once I properly quoted "test.RData" on
>>>>>
>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>>>>
>>>>> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
>>>>> x86_64-pc-mingw32
>>>>>
>>>>> locale:
>>>>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
>>>>> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
>>>>> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
>>>>> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
>>>>> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>>>>>
>>>>> If correcting the quoting does not help you, perhaps you can report
>>>>> the results of sessionInfo()
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Josh
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 5:14 PM, steven mosher <mosherste...@gmail.com
>>>>> >
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> In the particular application I have I save "test.Rdata" to a sub
>>>>>> directory
>>>>>> dir<-"Example"
>>>>>> dir.create(dir)
>>>>>> test<-data.frame(a=c(1,2,3),b=c(3,4,5)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> full<-file.path(dir,"test.Rdata,fsep=.Platform$file.sep)
>>>>>> save(test,file=full)
>>>>>> load(full)
>>>>>> returns NULL
>>>>>>
>>>>>> it works fine when the object is saved to the working directory, but
>>>>>> fails
>>>>>> when saved to a sub directory.
>>>>>> The Rdata is there. Bytes are in it. but loading it doesnt work.
>>>>>>
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>>>>>> PLEASE do read the posting guide
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>>>>>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Joshua Wiley
>>>>> Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology
>>>>> University of California, Los Angeles
>>>>> http://www.joshuawiley.com/
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Joshua Wiley
>>> Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology
>>> University of California, Los Angeles
>>> http://www.joshuawiley.com/
>>>
>>>
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>
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> West Hartford, CT
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