[ESS] .Rdata not loading

[Stephen Eglen]

Apologies if you've already tried this, but have you tried running R on
its own in a terminal?  Do you get the same error then when trying to
load .RData?




On Thu, Dec 23 2021, Rich Shepard via ESS-help wrote:

> I use R with emacs and ESS. Each time I finish with a session I save the
> image. Today when I invoke ESS the saved image did not load and manually
> running 'load('.RData') fails:
>> load('.RData')
> Error in load(".RData") :
>   ReadItem: unknown type 0, perhaps written by later version of R
>>
>
> This has not happed before.
>
> Installed is R-4.1.2-x86_64-1_SBo and in the PWD I see:
> $ ll .RData*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 rshepard users 28074080 Dec 22 15:32 .RData
> -rw-r--r-- 1 rshepard users      134 Nov  4 14:57 .RDataTmp
> -rw-r--r-- 1 rshepard users        0 Nov  4 14:57 .RDataTmp1
>
> What might be keeping .RData from loading?
>
> How do I load it?
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
>
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