I have changed the default in save() to compress = !ascii.
quite safe, as almost always save() is called explicitly
appreciate that it might take a little time to save large
depending on your system, compression could even be faster).
I'm in favor of such a change. I almost always explicitly
set `compress =
TRUE'. When I don't use it, it's because I want to be able
to load large
objects quickly and I've noticed that loading uncompressed
workspaces can be
quite a bit faster. Usually though, the savings in disk
space is worth the
small penalty in loading time.
Should we also change the default in save.image()? That is almost
always
used implicitly, via q(), a menu .... There are arguments
more serious change so should not be done at the end of the
and also that large .RData files are something people would
want to avoid.
I rarely use `save.image()' except to occasionally dump data
during a long run
for crash recovery purposes. I don't think changing the
defaults would make a
difference to me.
BTW, the defaults can be changed via options() (see ?save):
I was not even aware of this!
And whilst I am feeling curious, has anyone used save(ascii