[R] R-devel and bad magic number

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Sat Aug 13 01:53:15 CEST 2005


Sean Davis wrote:
> Is anyone else having issues like this (r-devel)?  The files look fine in an
> editor....
> 
> 
>>load('stuff1.R')
> 
> Error: bad restore file magic number (file may be corrupted) -- no data
> loaded
> 
>>load('/Users/sdavis/Desktop/Downloads/biomaRt/R/biomaRt.R')
> 
> Error: bad restore file magic number (file may be corrupted) -- no data
> loaded

load() is for binary workspaces.  Use source() to read source code.

Duncan Murdoch




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