[R] Reading .RData Fails

[Alvaro A. Novo @galton]

Hi,

We have a user reporting the following problem


> % R
>
> R : Copyright 2001, The R Development Core Team
> Version 1.2.3  (2001-04-26)
>
> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> Type `license()' or `licence()' for distribution details.
>
> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
> Type `contributors()' for more information.
>
> Type `demo()' for some demos, `help()' for on-line help, or
> `help.start()' for a HTML browser interface to help.
> Type `q()' to quit R.
>
> Error: NewReadItem: unknown type 875560960
> Fatal error: unable to restore saved data
>  (remove .RData or increase memory)

The physical memory is 2GB and the .RData (renamed .old.RData) size
is:

% ls -lh .old.RData
-rw-r--r--   1  531          316M May 14 18:58 .old.RData

Also, it fails in both Linux and Solaris (the message above is
from Solaris. If memory doesn't fail me, the message in the
Linux box was slightly different, in particular, the first line).

Suggestions? Thank you very much,

Alvaro Novo



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