R help - Feb 2012 - Resurrecting old Splus objects

I have a small file of the type that S-PLUS produced and stored in
.Data/ directories back in the days before we used R. I'm fairly sure
it would become a dataframe if read into Ver 3.4 of that august
predecessor to what we use now.  (It was Solaris in case that makes
any difference.)

AFAIK, the format that S-PLUS uses changed after that, so a current
version would find it unreadable.  If that is the case, I could be
searching for an S-language enthusiast/historian who has access to a
suitable version.

If you, gentle reader, or someone you know is such a person, I would
appreciate it if you could use something like write.table to produce a
text file such as a CSV or tab-delimitted.  

If you are willing and able, or even better, if there's an easier way,
I'd be very interested to know about it.

TIA

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Try read.S in package foreign.  It was written back in the days of that 
S-PLUS format.

On 16/02/2012 06:06, Patrick Connolly wrote:
> I have a small file of the type that S-PLUS produced and stored in
> .Data/ directories back in the days before we used R. I'm fairly sure
> it would become a dataframe if read into Ver 3.4 of that august
> predecessor to what we use now.  (It was Solaris in case that makes
> any difference.)
It does, because Solaris then would AFAIR have been on Sparc and 
big-endian.  But read.S should handle big-endian.
> AFAIK, the format that S-PLUS uses changed after that, so a current
> version would find it unreadable.
I believe more recent S-PLUS would be able to read it, too.

 > If that is the case, I could be
> searching for an S-language enthusiast/historian who has access to a
> suitable version.
>
> If you, gentle reader, or someone you know is such a person, I would
> appreciate it if you could use something like write.table to produce a
> text file such as a CSV or tab-delimitted.
>
> If you are willing and able, or even better, if there's an easier way,
> I'd be very interested to know about it.
>
> TIA
>

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