[R] problems with re-loading exported data

[jim holtman]

Can you at least show us what you were doing.  It sounds like you were
trying to 'load' a text file, not something that was saved with
'save'.  Here is what I get:

> load('trackV3.r')
Error: bad restore file magic number (file may be corrupted) -- no data loaded
In addition: Warning message:
file 'trackV3.r' has magic number '# rea'
   Use of save versions prior to 2 is deprecated

Which is very similar to your message.  If you did a 'write.table',
then use 'read.table' to read it back in.

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Marion Dumas <mariouka at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a data file originally as .mat file from matlab that I imported in R
> using the R.matlab package (readMat). This loaded a list containing amongst
> other things a 4x4 array of rainfall data that is quite heavy (around 40 Mb,
> it took 10 minutes to load on my computer). I tried to export it as R data
> file or simply a text file (using the command write) to share this data with
> other R users. When I open it in the text editor, I get a normal looking
> file with space-delimited numerical values. However, when I try to to load
> the resulting output file, I get the following error message:
>
>
> Error: bad restore file magic number (file may be corrupted) -- no data
> loaded
> In addition: Warning message:
> file 'outrainfall' has magic number '0 0 0'
>   Use of save versions prior to 2 is deprecated
>
> I would really appreciate your help, as this is a rather  important issue to
> clarify.
> Thanks
> Marion Dumas
>
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Jim Holtman
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What is the problem that you are trying to solve?