Hi Shu: good morning Thank you very much for your detailed explanation. Got it now.
With many thanks Abou On Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 9:39 PM Shu Fai Cheung <shufai.che...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > You can try this: > > head(irisdata) > > Objects loaded by load() keep their names when being saved. In your > case, it is 'irisdata'. > > You can also use verbose = TRUE to show the names of objects loaded: > > load(file = "irisdataTest.RData", verbose = TRUE) > > Hope this helps. > > Regards, > Shu Fai > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 9:24 AM AbouEl-Makarim Aboueissa > <abouelmakarim1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Dear ALL: > > > > I am teaching statistical packages class this semester, in R programing I > > am trying to explain the use of save() and load() with an example using > the > > iris data. It seems that the save() function works, BUT when I tried to > > load the data back to R, it seems that there is a problem(s), I could not > > figure out what went wrong. > > > > Any help would be highly appreciated. > > > > > > I saved the iris data in my computer in the text format, > "iris.with.head.txt > > ". > > > > Here are my R codes: > > > > > irisdata<-read.table("G:/iris.with.head.txt", header=T) > > > > > > head(irisdata) > > Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species > > 1 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.2 setosa > > 2 4.9 3.0 1.4 0.2 setosa > > 3 4.7 3.2 1.3 0.2 setosa > > 4 4.6 3.1 1.5 0.2 setosa > > 5 5.0 3.6 1.4 0.2 setosa > > 6 5.4 3.9 1.7 0.4 setosa > > > > > > > > *##### saving the data as an .rda* > > > > save(irisdata,file="G:/irisdataTest.rda") > > > > *##### load the data back to R* > > > > load(file="G:/irisdataTest.rda") > > > > > > >head(irisdataTest) > > Error in head(irisdataTest) : object 'irisdataTest' not found > > > > > irisdataTest > > Error: object 'irisdataTest' not found > > > > > > > > with many thanks > > abou > > ______________________ > > > > > > *AbouEl-Makarim Aboueissa, PhD* > > > > *Professor, Mathematics and Statistics* > > *Graduate Coordinator* > > > > *Department of Mathematics and Statistics* > > *University of Southern Maine* > > > > [[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. > [[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.