>> If clearing out your workspace destroys *any* work, then something is >> seriously wrong with your workflow. >> > > Yes, of course. Lets all post viruses to run on each others' > machines. That will teach those users who don't run antivirus and > backup software between each posting to r-help. Also if they are > running large data sets whose processing takes time to recreate they > should be checkpointing everything at all points during the > development. And what about those misguided Bayesians who are running > those long MCMC simulations. Let them just rerun them from the start. > Its really all their fault anyways. They should have known better. > :)
If you are running random R code from the internet in the same R session that you are performing important work, then you deserve everything you get! Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ 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.