any ideas? has anybody tried to recover RData files before?
Duncan Murdoch-2 wrote: > > On 7/13/2009 3:38 PM, sten...@go.com wrote: >> Is there a way to identify the beginning and end of an .RData file? >> I am trying to restore lost files on opensolaris where the table of >> contents >> is overwritten and will be reading the raw disk byte by byte. >> I looked at several files in hex and the end seems different, while >> most of >> them, but not all begin with RDX2.X > > No, there is nothing special written at the end of a file. Many .RData > files are compressed (by internal gzip), so the RDX2 header is hidden, > and you'll see bytes 1F 8B instead. (I don't think we write the trailer > bytes on the gzip stream, but I'm not sure about that.) > > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/.RData-signature-tp24468047p24472875.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.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.
