The cause of “bad magic number” error when loading a workspace and how to avoid it?

Question

I tried to load my R workspace and received this error:

Error: bad restore file magic number (file may be corrupted) -- no data loaded
In addition: Warning m         


        

Answer 1

Assuming your file is named "myfile.ext"

If the file you're trying to load is not an R-script, for which you would use

source("myfile.ext")

you might try the readRDSfunction and assign it to a variable-name:

my.data <- readRDS("myfile.ext")