From p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk  Wed Dec  3 11:30:13 1997
From: p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA)
Date: 03 Dec 1997 12:30:13 +0100
Subject: R-alpha: Re^3: data file names
In-Reply-To: Martin Maechler's message of Wed, 3 Dec 1997 09:00:11 +0100
References: <199712030800.JAA03331@sophie.ethz.ch>
Message-ID: <x27m9m1x6i.fsf@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk>

Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> writes:

> Yes, why not agree on this, now, even before implementation!
>  
>     KH> rdf	for R data file/format (data.dump/data.restore)
> 
> data.dump/data.restore  is hopefully going to be  S-plus compatible as much
> as possible (that's why most of us would want it).
> Hence, I think the `R' is really too much there.

I don't think so. The data.dump format is really just an efficient
encoding of the output of dput/dump. It won't be more compatible than
the data structures themselves. That is, unless someone wants to sit
down and catalog all the differences in internal data structures and
do the relevant transformation code....


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R-alpha: Re^3: data file names
Peter Dalgaard BSA