From thomas@biostat.washington.edu  Wed Aug 20 22:31:07 1997
From: thomas@biostat.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 14:31:07 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: R-alpha: names for .RData
In-Reply-To: <199708080306.PAA27540@stat1.stat.auckland.ac.nz>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970820141956.24129B-100000@chekov>


It would be nice for the save file name .RData to be a variable in
config.site (unless the machine-independent files are coming very soon). 
We are currently running R on a cluster with both sparc-solaris and
intel-linux machines, which don't like each other's .RData files.  At the
moment I edit the source files by hand to change the name to .RData-linux.

On a related topic, has anyone given any more thought to installing
multiple binaries in the same directory tree (as suggested some time ago
by Greg Warnes)?  This could save quite a lot of space as well as making
it easier to keep different operating systems synchronised. 

Thomas Lumley
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R-alpha: names for .RData
Thomas Lumley