[R] saveRDS() and readRDS() Why? [solved, kind of]

[Patrick Connolly]

On Thu, 08-Nov-2018 at 11:06AM +0100, Martin Maechler wrote:

|> >>>>> Patrick Connolly 
|> >>>>>     on Thu, 8 Nov 2018 20:27:24 +1300 writes:

[...]

|> > 
|> > I still don't know Why, but I know How.
|> 
|> Hmm.. and nobody has been able to reproduce your problem, right?
|> 
|> IIUC, currently you are suggesting that [on Windows], if you do
|> 
|>       saveRDS(rawdata, file="rawdata.rds")
|> 
|> the resulting file is does not work with    readRDS()  on Linux.
|> What again are your R versions on the two platforms?


It's an old version on Windows.  I haven't used Windows R since then.

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I've tried R-3.5.0 and R-3.5.1 Linux versions.  The problem might be
entirely because of the ancient Windows version. 


|> 
|> Could you  dput() -- provide a (short if possible) version of rawdata where
|> that problem occurs ?

I can't make a smaller version of rawdata which comes from scraping a
non-public web address, but next week when I'm back where those
machines are, I'll try it with a small data frame which is
reproducible.



|> 
|> Best,
|> Martin
|> 
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