Scenario: Here I am working away in R. I've got results that prove global warming is anthropogenic and also the solution for producing limitless carbon-neutral energy from nuclear fusion. Its been a good day.
So, I want to save my work. I don't want to overwrite my current .RData, so I save it to another file: save(file="prize.RData") # just need to email this to the Nobel committee q() Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: - "no" I don't want to save the workspace image, I just saved everything to "prize.RData". But gee, it did seem to do that quite quickly considering the volume of evidential data in my work. My unix shell prompt returns. Uh oh. See what I did there? I typed 'save' when I meant 'save.image'. What does that give me? A 42 byte, empty, latest.RData, and because there was no warning or error I quit without saving it again. Oops. Massive Data Loss. Is there any reason why save(file="file.RData") couldn't warn or error if you try and save nothing? There's no obvious check in the R code for save. Barry PS the above scenario is fictional. When did I last have a good day? ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
