I recommend to use saveRDS()/readRDS() instead. More convenient and avoids the risk that load() has of overwriting existing variables with the same name.
/Henrik On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Greg Snow <538...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think that you are looking for the `list` argument in `save`. > > save( list=foo, file=paste0(foo, '.Rdata') ) > > In general it is best to avoid using the assign function (and get when > possible). Usually there are better alternatives. > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 2:35 PM, David Stevens <david.stev...@usu.edu> wrote: >> R community, >> >> Apologies if this has been answered. The concept I'm looking for is to >> save() an object retrieved using get() for an object >> that resulted from using assign. Something like >> >> save(get(foo),file=paste(foo,'rData',sep='')) >> >> where assign(foo,obj) creates an object named foo with the contents of obj >> assigned. For example, if >> >> x <- data.frame(v1=c(1,2,3,4),v2=c('1','2','3','4')) >> foo = 'my.x' >> assign(foo,x) >> # (... then modify foo as needed) >> save(get(foo),file=paste(foo,'.rData',sep='')) >> >> # though this generates " in save(get(foo), file = paste(foo, ".rData", sep >> = "")) : >> object ‘get(foo)’ not found", whereas >> >> get(foo) >> >> at the command prompt yields the contents of my.x >> >> There's a concept I'm missing here. Can anyone help? >> >> Regards >> >> David Stevens >> >> -- >> David K Stevens, P.E., Ph.D. >> Professor and Head, Environmental Engineering >> Civil and Environmental Engineering >> Utah Water Research Laboratory >> 8200 Old Main Hill >> Logan, UT 84322-8200 >> 435 797 3229 - voice >> 435 797 1363 - fax >> david.stev...@usu.edu >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. > > > > -- > Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. > 538...@gmail.com > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.