R/ dumping code to file

[McClatchie, Sam (PIRSA-SARDI)]

Background:
OS: Linux Mandrake 9.1
release: R 1.9.0 
editor: Xemacs 21.4
frontend: ESS 5.1.23
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Colleagues

In a previous installation of ESS under emacs (not xemacs) I had an option
that I want to replicate in my current installation. I would like to dump
the coding from my R-scripts to an ascii file when I compile the code using
^C-D. At present the code from my scripts is all in a .RData file, but this
can be inconvenient if something corrupts in that file. I think the option
was in one of the initialisation files (either a .emacs or one of the
perhaps in the ess-site.el file?).

My earlier configuration produced an /R-src directory with text files for
each script (user.filename.R) that could readily be reloaded in the event of
corruption of .R-data, and can  be searched with grep, or whatever.

Help, much appreciated,

Sam
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Sam McClatchie,
Sub-program leader, Pelagic Fisheries
South Australian Aquatic Sciences Centre
PO Box 120, Henley Beach 5022
Adelaide, South Australia
email <mcclatchie.sam at saugov.sa.gov.au>
Telephone: (61-8) 8200 2448
FAX: (61-8) 8200 2481
Research home page <http://www.smcc.150m.com/>
  
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