I think it came down to my actual program having a function that saved the objects it was passed with a .RData extension as opposed to .Rdata
Rechecking the whole thing. On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Joshua Wiley <jwiley.ps...@gmail.com>wrote: > Steven, > > I have exited my R session and restarted and I can load the file > without issue. I have also tried loading the saved data on some older > versions of R (2.10.1 and 2.11.0) and Windows (XP). Have you tried > recreating the test object, ensuring that it is not NULL itself, > resaving it, and then see if loading it works better? > > Josh > > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 12:06 AM, steven mosher <mosherste...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Did you exit R and then return? > > fname<-"test.Rdata" > > full<-file.path("Example",fname,fsep=.Platform$file.sep) > > full > > [1] "Example/test.Rdata" > > load(full) > > test > > NULL > >> sessionInfo() > > R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) > > x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0 > > locale: > > [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 > > attached base packages: > > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > > [1] tools_2.11.1 > > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Joshua Wiley <jwiley.ps...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> That worked for me once I properly quoted "test.RData" on > >> > >> > sessionInfo() > >> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) > >> x86_64-pc-mingw32 > >> > >> locale: > >> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 > >> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 > >> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 > >> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C > >> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 > >> > >> If correcting the quoting does not help you, perhaps you can report > >> the results of sessionInfo() > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Josh > >> > >> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 5:14 PM, steven mosher <mosherste...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > In the particular application I have I save "test.Rdata" to a sub > >> > directory > >> > dir<-"Example" > >> > dir.create(dir) > >> > test<-data.frame(a=c(1,2,3),b=c(3,4,5) > >> > > >> > full<-file.path(dir,"test.Rdata,fsep=.Platform$file.sep) > >> > save(test,file=full) > >> > load(full) > >> > returns NULL > >> > > >> > it works fine when the object is saved to the working directory, but > >> > fails > >> > when saved to a sub directory. > >> > The Rdata is there. Bytes are in it. but loading it doesnt work. > >> > > >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >> > > >> > ______________________________________________ > >> > 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. > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Joshua Wiley > >> Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology > >> University of California, Los Angeles > >> http://www.joshuawiley.com/ > > > > > > > > -- > Joshua Wiley > Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology > University of California, Los Angeles > http://www.joshuawiley.com/ > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.