“bad restore file magic number” error in R

Question

As in What could cause a "bad magic number" error when loading an R workspace and how to avoid it? and R has magic number 'ëPNG' error, I\'m getting a

Answer 1

The read.table function ended up working: http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/utils/html/read.table.html

> fossildata <- read.table("fossilien.dat")

EDIT by CGW: load is for files in .rdata format, while your fossilien.dat clearly is an ASCII table. source executes the named file or object.