> On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:23:11 +0100 (BST),
> Prof Brian Ripley (PBR) wrote:
> I have changed the default in save() to compress = !ascii. This seems
> quite safe, as almost always save() is called explicitly and people will
> appreciate that it might take a little time to save larg
Ditto for me, with the following exceptions:
- I always use save(..., compress=TRUE), without exception.
- The only time I'd use save.image() is when I need to break a remote
connection on short notice.
- I have not used options() to set the default simply because I have not
figured out how exactl
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> I have changed the default in save() to compress = !ascii. This seems
> quite safe, as almost always save() is called explicitly and people will
> appreciate that it might take a little time to save large objects (and
> depending on your system, compression could eve
I have changed the default in save() to compress = !ascii. This seems
quite safe, as almost always save() is called explicitly and people will
appreciate that it might take a little time to save large objects (and
depending on your system, compression could even be faster).
Should we also chang
