On Oct 15, 2010, at 12:37 , Philipp Pagel wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 09:57:21AM +0200, Muteba Mwamba, John wrote: > >> "FATAL ERROR: unable to restore saved data in .RDATA" > > Without more information it's hard to know what exactly went wrong. > > Anyway, the message most likely means that the .RData file got > corrupted. Deleting it should solve the problem. Note that this means > that you will get an empty workspace and have to recreate whatever > data was in it before.
Renaming the file is a better idea. Then at least you have some chance of being able to load() it into an R Session and recover things from the workspace. No guarantees, though. -pd > >> I decided to uninstall the copy (a R2.11.0) and installed a new >> version (2.11.1) but I'm still receiving the same message. When I >> click OK the closes. > > Re-installation of R will most likely not fix this (unless a change in > the format of the .RData files had occurred - but to my knowledge no > such thing has happened, recently.) > > cu > Philipp > > -- > Dr. Philipp Pagel > Lehrstuhl für Genomorientierte Bioinformatik > Technische Universität München > Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan > Maximus-von-Imhof-Forum 3 > 85354 Freising, Germany > http://webclu.bio.wzw.tum.de/~pagel/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Peter Dalgaard Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.