On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Frank E Harrell Jr <f.harr...@vanderbilt.edu> wrote: > Gábor Csárdi wrote: >> >> Perhaps you are looking for ?serialize. >> >> Best, >> Gábor > > Wouldn't save( ) and load( ) be faster and result in much smaller files?
Depends, functionality is not the same, I think. 'serialize' can simply return the serialized form of an object, 'save' works best with files. (With some extra work it should work on general connections I suppose.) 'save' can handle many objects, serialize works with a single object. I'm sure there are other differences. Gabor > Frank > >> >> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:09 AM, mkna005 mkna005 >> <mkna...@aucklanduni.ac.nz> wrote: >>> >>> Hello all! >>> I was wondering if there is a way to pickle an R object into a file >>> like it is possible in python? Such as you have an complicated R >>> object(not a dataframe) , you use a function to write it to a file and >>> than you have a function where you can retrieve the object from that >>> file later on. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Christoph >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >>> >> >> >> > > > -- > Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chairman School of Medicine > Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University > -- Gabor Csardi <gabor.csa...@unil.ch> UNIL DGM ______________________________________________ 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.
