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...share a common filesystem (say afs or dfs) then loading the wrong type of .RData file can lead to mysterious behaviour. In my environment, undergraduate students are the most likely to log into different cputypes, and they end up being quite confused. To solve this problem in S I set up an S_WORK environment variable that set the name of the .Data area, via the front end shell script. For example, on the HP I use .Data.hp. I would like to see the same facility in R. if R_WORK is missing, then use the standard name. If R_WORK exists, then use that name as the file to save the R sess...