#RData
new trump EO bans anyone from receiving NSF funding from saving a dataframe as Rdata, and makes it a felony to save it as "df"
January 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
the real crisis of masculinity is that young men think saving things as Rdata and naming them "df" is ok
November 11, 2024 at 3:54 PM
mfers look down on you for rm(list=ls()) but will save an Rdata object named 'df'.
November 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
the ghost of data past 😱:
[✓] Restore .RData into workspace at startup
October 29, 2024 at 2:54 PM
Yes.

Also, I love that the #Positron devs chose not to support .RData files.

When I work with RStudio users, I make a point of trying to set them down the right path, but that "save .RData by default" behavior makes it so easy to slip into bad habits before you know they're bad habits.
August 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
If you're an #rstats user, one way to protect yourself from yourself is to do:

usethis::git_vaccinate()

which will setup or modify your user-level (aka global) gitignore file to handle the most obvious R-associated files that probably don't belong in git.

usethis.r-lib.org/reference/gi...
October 29, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Typically one .R that does basic data processing and cleaning that often results in several data objects that are saved as .RData. Then load that .RData in a quarto doc for the analysis "proper", which might be a lab report or manuscript. Data stored in raw form alongside for full reproducibility
July 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Day 4: .Rbuildignore and .gitignore Best Practices 📁

Control what gets included in your package build and git repository! 🎯

💡 Pro Tip: Use usethis::use_build_ignore() to add entries programmatically.

#rstats #BestPractices #Git #RPackageAdvent2025 🗃️
December 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
For any folks working with SCOTUS Oral Arguments -- I've compiled transcripts of arguments between 1955 and 2023 (Up to Today) into .rdata

Feel free to use!
Jake S. Truscott, Ph.D
jaketruscott.github.io
November 7, 2023 at 9:49 PM
what started a side project, spawned two other side #rstats projects

I needed a dataset that had business transactions that was available both in RData or database format so that I can use with my {fpaR} package.

So I first worked on the {contoso} package but..

github.com/alejandrohag...
GitHub - alejandrohagan/contoso: Fictional dataset of sales transactions from the "Contoso" company
Fictional dataset of sales transactions from the "Contoso" company - alejandrohagan/contoso
github.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
At the following link, I host a full replication package of the project that includes RData files with all estimated parameters for those that wish to re-use the results in other ways. (6/6)

tinyurl.com/3z9s9btz
GitHub - AaronGullickson/inter_partner_trends: Replication Package for Trends and Heterogeneity in Interracial Marriage in the United States, 1960-2023
Replication Package for Trends and Heterogeneity in Interracial Marriage in the United States, 1960-2023 - AaronGullickson/inter_partner_trends
tinyurl.com
September 28, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Just published in JOSS: 'rdata: A Python library for R datasets' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07540
December 1, 2024 at 9:14 PM
I pushed a 1-change update to Crystal Palace. linkfunc now works with make coff. link (in a make coff context) merges the linked data into the .rdata section.

Both are to support the BOF cocktails idea.

rastamouse.me/bof-cocktails/
BOF Cocktails
Crystal Palace is a PIC framework that can be used to write, among other things, prepended DLL loaders. The philosophy of the project is to apply evasion tradecraft (also written as PIC), to a capabil...
rastamouse.me
January 15, 2026 at 10:07 AM
What is it with younger folks (career wise) not using .RData files? It's so confusing to me. Especially when a process or workflow takes a long time to run. Why not save the objects so you don't have to rerun everything? Am I just old?
April 4, 2024 at 6:32 PM
o assunto política no rdata sempre me pega mto.
October 5, 2024 at 5:17 AM
I've really gotten into using Quarto/RMarkdown and Github lately, mainly so I don't have to send anymore emails like this because my memory is absolute shit these days. #RStats
November 3, 2023 at 8:54 AM
While you partied, I studied the RRset.

While you dated with abandon, I mastered chasing CNAMEs.

When you were busy in the gym chasing vanity, I cultivated a vision of the interconnections of RData.

So believe me when I tell you

it's always DNS.

⚔️
January 20, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Gucken wir uns mal die Steckerbelegung an; damit beginnt es.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_...

Selbst hier erkennt man, dass für die Datenübertragung nur genau zwei Leitungen notwendig sind: WDATA und RDATA.
Den exakten Datenstrom wird man hinbekommen.
Floppy disk drive interface - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
July 19, 2024 at 11:13 PM
Yes, saving to rds or RData or whatever. Save an lm or glm and watch it go boom!
May 5, 2026 at 4:22 AM
Me: *been #coding extensively since early teens*

Also me: *only just discovers you can use 'ctrl + shift + c' to comment out a chunk of code at 29*

I have been going line by line in #R to comment... possibly could have saved hours of time

#rdata #rstudio #stats #data #phdfail #alwayslearning
December 12, 2024 at 9:10 AM
Also sites.google.com/view/statist... (not super-rigorous, aimed at biologists, gets to mixed models in the last three chapters, no GAMs/splines AFAICS)
Home
Welcome to the companion web site of the book. Oxford Univ.Press site In this web site, you will find: The scripts, data and the R workspace (RData) files for each chapter of Parts I, II and III. The ...
sites.google.com
July 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Thanks to you, saving .RData is part of my workflow now. Soooo helpful. I think training on basic programming skills and computer literacy is simply lacking. A more upstream problem I see is people not having an understanding of file paths and folders and the question is “save rdata where?”
April 4, 2024 at 6:36 PM
hmm. now i'm curious if an environment where the list is decomposed into its elements would be larger or smaller than the lm object, or exactly the same size. (that said, iirc rds/rdata storage is hilariously inefficient)
May 5, 2026 at 4:24 AM
We’ve released NSD 4.14.1 with more compact data storage for improved memory efficiency.
Check the release notes: www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/nsd...

Willem also wrote a blog post explaining the approach and measurements showing the reduced memory footprint: blog.nlnetlabs.nl/smaller-fast...
Smaller, faster: NSD's refactored RDATA storage and compile time memory reduction options
On the 4th of December, NSD 4.14.0 was released with refactored RDATA storage, reducing the memory footprint of NSD. In this post we'll show the effect of this refactoring, what sort of zones benefit ...
blog.nlnetlabs.nl
February 27, 2026 at 3:34 PM
oh and I still don't understand the .Rdata shenanigans. RStudio is very cool with autosaving your env so you can access variables and functions when you open your project again without re-running everything again.
July 10, 2025 at 7:32 AM