[R] Cannot re-start R after bus error

Detlef Steuer detlef.steuer at hsu-hamburg.de
Tue Jul 22 23:09:08 CEST 2008


On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:22:08 +0000
"Ralph S." <ruffel1 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I ran a program that was exhausting the (unix) server's available memory. I got a bus error and then chose to save and quit workspace (option 4).
> 
> That may not have been a smart idea - when I try to use R now, I get the error message:
> 
> Error in load(name, envir = .GlobalEnv) : 
>   ReadItem: unknown type 0, perhaps written by later version of R
> Fatal error: unable to restore saved data in .RData
> 
> I deleted my temporary R directories but still get the same message.
> 
> What can I do to change this?

rm ~/.RData

detlef

> 
> Best,
> 
> Ralph
> 
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