[R] Synchronzing workspaces

[Paul August]

Thanks for sharing your experience. In my case, the involved machines are Windows Vista, XP and 2000. Not sure whether it contributes to my problem or not. I will look into this further.

I just noticed the two arguments ascii and compress for save. However, my .RData file was created by q() with "yes". The manual says that q() is equivalent to save(list = ls(all=TRUE), file = ".RData"). There seems to be no way to set ascii or compression of save through q function, unless the q function is replaced explicitly with save(list = ls(all=TRUE), file = ".RData", ascii = T).

Paul.


----- Original Message ----
From: Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>
To: Paul August <paulaugust2003 at yahoo.com>
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 11:24:31 PM
Subject: Re: [R] Synchronzing workspaces

I haven't had similar experience but note that save has ascii=
and compress= arguments.  You could check if varying those
parameter values makes a difference.

On 8/30/07, Paul August <paulaugust2003 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I used to work on several computers and to use a flash drive to synchronize the workspace on each machine before starting to work on it. I found that .RData always caused some trouble: Often it is corrupted even though there is no error in copying process. Does anybody have the similar experience?
>
> Paul.
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk>
> To: Eric Turkheimer <ent3c at virginia.edu>
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 9:43:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [R] Synchronzing workspaces
>
> Eric Turkheimer wrote:
> > How do people go about synchronizing multiple workspaces on different
> > workstations?  I tend to wind up with projects spread around the various
> > machines I work on.  I find that placing the directories on a server and
> > reading them remotely tends to slow things down.
>
>  If R were to store all its workspace data objects in individual files
> instead of one big .RData file, then you could use a revision control
> system like SVN.  Check out the data, work on it, check it in, then on
> another machine just update to get the changes.
>
>  However SVN doesn't work too well for binary files - conflicts being
> hard to resolve without someone backing down - so maybe its not such a
> good idea anyway...
>
>  On unix boxes and derivatives, you can keep things in sync efficiently
> with the 'rsync' command.  I think there are GUI addons for it, and
> Windows ports.
>
> Barry
>
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