The solution was very simple. Don't use the same name for the rds
file as used for the R object, viz a vie:
saveRDS(x, file = "x.rds")
and
x <- readRDS(file = "x.rds")
will not work; however
saveRDS(x, file = "y.rds")
and
x <- readRDS(file = "y.rds")
will work.
An undocumented feature?
Thanks to all who contributed.
On Sat, 10-Nov-2018 at 08:48PM +1300, Patrick Connolly wrote:
|> On Thu, 08-Nov-2018 at 11:06AM +0100, Martin Maechler wrote:
|>
|> |> >>>>> Patrick Connolly
|> |> >>>>> on Thu, 8 Nov 2018 20:27:24 +1300 writes:
|>
|> [...]
|>
|> |> >
|> |> > I still don't know Why, but I know How.
|> |>
|> |> Hmm.. and nobody has been able to reproduce your problem, right?
|> |>
|> |> IIUC, currently you are suggesting that [on Windows], if you do
|> |>
|> |> saveRDS(rawdata, file="rawdata.rds")
|> |>
|> |> the resulting file is does not work with readRDS() on Linux.
|> |> What again are your R versions on the two platforms?
|>
|>
|> It's an old version on Windows. I haven't used Windows R since then.
|>
|> major 3
|> minor 2.4
|> year 2016
|> month 03
|> day 16
|>
|>
|> I've tried R-3.5.0 and R-3.5.1 Linux versions. The problem might be
|> entirely because of the ancient Windows version.
|>
|>
|> |>
|> |> Could you dput() -- provide a (short if possible) version of rawdata
where
|> |> that problem occurs ?
|>
|> I can't make a smaller version of rawdata which comes from scraping a
|> non-public web address, but next week when I'm back where those
|> machines are, I'll try it with a small data frame which is
|> reproducible.
|>
|>
|>
|> |>
|> |> Best,
|> |> Martin
|> |>
|> |>
|> |> >
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