[R] q() again and again and again

[Steve Arthur]

Rer's,

Get ready for this intellectual fest!

Linux i686 2.2.14-1mdklinus
R-1.0.1

When I try to q() from my workspace, I get the following responses:

###############################
> q()
Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: y Error: can't save data -- unable to open
./.RData

then:

> save.image()
Error in save(list, file, ascii, oldstyle) :
        unable to open file

and finally:

> save(list = ls(all=TRUE), file = ".RData")
Error in save(list, file, ascii, oldstyle) :
        unable to open file  

##############################

What I get from this is that R is "unable to open file" .RData

When I did an ls -la on my directory I got the dates shown below which
indicate that the .RData and .Rhistory files had not been touched since
7:01 last night.

  -rw-r--r-- 1 sarthur users 452553 Jul 11 19:01 .RData
  -rw------- 1 sarthur users   9037 Jul 11 19:01 .Rhistory

What gives?

Thanks to Kjetil, I now know that I have .RData, and .Rhistory files.  The
.RData file looks like a mess when you open it though?

I hope someone can fill in some of the blanks on how all these R concepts
work together if you think you can add more than what is provided in the
current R documentation.

Oh, one further question, what is the best way to install R-1.1.0 on top
of R-1.0.1?

Thanks,

steve

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