>> Is there any chance that readRDS and saveRDS might one day become >> read.rds and write.rds? That would make them more consistent with the >> other reading and writing functions. > > Ending names in .foo is a bad idea because of the S3 naming conventions, so > I think this is unlikely. But you can always create an alias yourself...
It just makes teaching that much harder. We have the pairs: * read.csv and write.csv * load and save * readRDS and saveRDS Even loadRDS/saveRDS or readRDS/writeRDS would be better than the current combo. Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel