You cannot. However, you can load the file into a dedicated environment to keep those names separated from your global environment. e.g. [1]
The saveRDS/loadRDS functions are an alternative handle one object at a time without dragging the object names into the picture (you have to name the re-loaded object). However, the best approach is to write scripts that pull directly from your source (non-R) data files. This makes your work process reproducible as you develop it. [1] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2016-August/441078.html -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On August 30, 2016 7:37:24 AM PDT, Leslie Rutkowski <leslie.rutkow...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi, > >I'm slowly migrating from SAS to R and - for the very first time - I'm >working with a native .Rda data file (rather than importing data from >other >sources). When I load this .Rda file into the global environment using >load("file path") I see a data.frame in the global environment called >"mydata" that corresponds to the .rda file. > >My question: how can I change the name of this data.frame to something >of >my choosing? > >Thanks for considering this very simple question. > >Leslie > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
