[R] Problem saving .RData file with save.image

[Jeff Newmiller]

Google is your friend (e.g. [1]). Gist of story is that that an existing file of that name is being "protected" by the operating system and you need to use filesystem utilities or reboot your machine to release the existing file from this condition. 

[1] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2002-April/020169.html
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On January 26, 2018 12:27:55 AM PST, Steven Yen <syen04 at gmail.com> wrote:
>I am running R-3.0.3 on RStudio 1.1.183. I have recently gotten the
>following error message while saving an .RData file with the save.image
>command. I have not had this problem until recently. Help appreciated.
>
>===
>Error in save.image("bope1a.RData") :
>   image could not be renamed and is left in bope1a.RDataTmp
>
>
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