>>> "Polwart Calum (County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust)" <calum.polw...@nhs.net> 08/19/09 10:57 PM >>> >is there a better way for the future? Use a text editor or something specific to R like Tinn-R and _save early and often_. Even if your editor has an autosave. And use savePlot on your graphs too, from within the code - don't save them manually from the menus 'cos you won't remember which file was which plot.
That may sound like paranoia, but believe me - they really are out to get you. Paranoia does have a brighter side, though; there is nothing quite like being able to go back to the saved code and re-do the complete statistical analysis from start to finish in about two minutes exactly as originally carried out when your research colleagues tell you cheerily that they found the typo in their raw data... S ******************************************************************* This email and any attachments are confidential. Any use...{{dropped:8}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.