.Rdata files -- fortune?
On 12/03/15 19:38, PIKAL Petr wrote:
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On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 09:00:15AM -0400, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote:
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Personally I think that auto saving / restoring workspaces should be reviewed, as it can, in practice, make it harder for people to render their work in a self-contained and reproducible way.
If this is considered I would beg for addind an option to keep autosave work for those who have different approach. If you keep the paradigm one project = one separate directory there shall be no problem with autosaving as you have only one Rdata file together with exported pictures, pdfs, xls and doc files. If you save history to separate files you can also easily keep track of your work. If autosave is disabled and you could leave your session without warning I bet that there would be hundereds of questions similar to: I worked whole day and after quitting R all my work is lost.
*Very* well put. I very much advocate keeping the current system as-is. There is nothing at all wrong with .RData files as long as you understand the concept of "workspace" and "global environment" --- i.e. as long as you understand WTF you're doing. And if you don't understand, you shouldn't be doing it. cheers, Rolf Turner
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