Re: [R] Resurrecting old Splus objects

2012-02-16 Thread Patrick Connolly
On Thu, 16-Feb-2012 at 07:30AM +, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: |> Try read.S in package foreign. It was written back in the days of |> that S-PLUS format. Great. Knows all about big-endian and does exactly what I needed very simply. All that time I've known about the foreign package and never

Re: [R] Resurrecting old Splus objects

2012-02-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Try read.S in package foreign. It was written back in the days of that S-PLUS format. On 16/02/2012 06:06, Patrick Connolly wrote: I have a small file of the type that S-PLUS produced and stored in .Data/ directories back in the days before we used R. I'm fairly sure it would become a datafram

[R] Resurrecting old Splus objects

2012-02-15 Thread Patrick Connolly
I have a small file of the type that S-PLUS produced and stored in .Data/ directories back in the days before we used R. I'm fairly sure it would become a dataframe if read into Ver 3.4 of that august predecessor to what we use now. (It was Solaris in case that makes any difference.) AFAIK, the f