follow-up

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...

	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


	.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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