[R] tackle memory insufficiency for large dataset using save() & load()?

Rolf Turner r.turner at auckland.ac.nz
Wed Aug 22 05:02:15 CEST 2007


On 22/08/2007, at 2:52 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:

> ?save says its the names (not the objects) although I just
> tried it and both save(iris, file = "/iris.Rdata") and
> save("iris", file = "/iris.Rdata") seemed to work so you are
> right that it seems to work with the objects, not just the names,\
> although its not documented to do so.

	Yeah, you're right --- it works both ways.  I just looked at the
	code and it converts the ... argument to a list of names using
	as.character(substitute(list(...)))[-1].

	These R Core people are sneaky-clever!

				cheers,

					Rolf Turner

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