> Its not just the time. Its also the nuisance of having to manage files that > I never needed in the first place.
In general, it's much easier to create output from a R object than create an R object from output. It's good programming practice to minimise the number of functions with side-effects - if all input and output went through connections, many parts of R would be much easier to program against. Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel