Thanks Professor Ripley and Professor Harrell. Yes, save(list=newname, ...) works.
Best, Nitin ----- Original Message ---- From: Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Nitin Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 11:14:37 AM Subject: Re: [R] saving results under specified file name >From the help page for save: Arguments: ...: the names of the objects to be saved (as symbols or character strings). list: A character vector containing the names of objects to be saved. so you need save(list=newname, ...). On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Nitin Jain wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to save the results in a specified file name. Here is a > test example: > > aa <- function(xx, newname) { > yy <- xx^2 > rdName <- file.path(paste(newname, ".RData", sep = "")) > assign(eval(newname), yy) > save(newname, file=rdName) ## FIXME > } > > > aa(3, "test") > > load("test.RData") > ls() > > I would like to see test (which should store 9) rather than newname > (which stores "test") > > Please let me know how to do this. > > Thanks. > -Nitin -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.