Hello, I'm trying to figure out how to create a data object, and then save it with a user-defined name that is input as a command line argument. I know how to create the object and assign it the new name, however, I can't figure out how to refer to the new name for a future operation such as save(). The code below creates an object and uses assign() to give it the user supplied name "MyName". However, since I don't know what the new name is in advance, how do I refer to it in the save() command? (the example below only saves an object with the name, not the objec itself).
Is it some kind of dereference? Any ideas? command: cat myscript.r | R --vanilla --args MyName script: # get the command-line argument for the variable name myobjectname <- commandArgs()[4] # make some data somedata <- matrix(rnorm(100),10,10) # make a filename for the saved object filename <- paste(myobjectname, ".RData", sep="") # assign data to the new name assign(myobjectname, somedata) # save the object to disk save(myobjectname, file=filename) ______________________________________________ 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.
