R help - Jul 2008 - Cannot re-start R after bus error

Hi,

I ran a program that was exhausting the (unix) server's available memory. I
got a bus error and then chose to save and quit workspace (option 4).

That may not have been a smart idea - when I try to use R now, I get the error
message:

Error in load(name, envir = .GlobalEnv) : 
  ReadItem: unknown type 0, perhaps written by later version of R
Fatal error: unable to restore saved data in .RData

I deleted my temporary R directories but still get the same message.

What can I do to change this?

Best,

Ralph

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On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:22:08 +0000
"Ralph S." <ruffel1 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I ran a program that was exhausting the (unix) server's available
memory. I got a bus error and then chose to save and quit workspace (option 4).
> 
> That may not have been a smart idea - when I try to use R now, I get the
error message:
> 
> Error in load(name, envir = .GlobalEnv) : 
>   ReadItem: unknown type 0, perhaps written by later version of R
> Fatal error: unable to restore saved data in .RData
> 
> I deleted my temporary R directories but still get the same message.
> 
> What can I do to change this?
rm ~/.RData

detlef
> 
> Best,
> 
> Ralph
> 
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thank you for the prompt help - found the file it was in a different directory

R
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> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:13:19 -0500
> From: markleeds at verizon.net
> Subject: RE: [R] Cannot re-start R after bus error
> To: ruffel1 at hotmail.com
> 
>   i realize you said that  deleted your temporary R directories but did 
> you delete that .RData file. It's trying to load it during startup and 
> it can't
> so it's probably there somewhere I would think ? Hopefully someone more
> knowledgable than me on these things will reply.
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at  4:22 PM, Ralph S. wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I ran a program that was exhausting the (unix) server's available 
>> memory. I got a bus error and then chose to save and quit workspace 
>> (option 4).
>>
>> That may not have been a smart idea - when I try to use R now, I get 
>> the error message:
>>
>> Error in load(name, envir = .GlobalEnv) :   ReadItem: unknown type 0, 
>> perhaps written by later version of R
>> Fatal error: unable to restore saved data in .RData
>>
>> I deleted my temporary R directories but still get the same message.
>>
>> What can I do to change this?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Ralph
>>
>> _________________________________________________________________
>>
>>
>> family_safety_072008
>> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>> PLEASE do read the posting guide 
>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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