Mea Culpa. I *used* to keep up with R, but have taken about 18 months
off. It seems that more has changed than I suspected...
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Ross Ihaka wrote:
> From r-help-owner at stat.math.ethz.ch Fri Jan 29 13:40 NZD 1999
> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 16:38:36 -0800 (PST)
> From: "Gregory R. Warnes" <warnes at
biostat.washington.edu>
> To: royle at penguin.irm.r9.fws.gov
> cc: R comments <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Subject: [R] Re: follow-up
> MIME-Version: 1.0
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>
> .RData files are *not* machine-independent! Thus, it doesn't mean the
> file is corrupted if it won't load on another machine.
>
> Minor correction. Under Unix we now use the XDR library (if available)
> to read and write the .RData files, and to that extent they are machine
> independent. I happily move .RData files between Intel and SPARC with
> no problems. If we could get a portable XDR (including windows and the
> Mac) we could really be machine independent.
>
> Ross
>
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