[R] saving results under specified file name

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

Nitin Jain wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to save the results in a specified file name.  Here is a test example:
>  
> 
> aa <- function(xx, newname) {
>  yy <- xx^2
>     rdName <- file.path(paste(newname, ".RData", sep = ""))
>     assign(eval(newname), yy)
> save(newname, file=rdName) ## FIXME
> }
> 
> 
> aa(3, "test")
> 
> load("test.RData")
> ls() 
> 
> I would like to see test (which should store 9) rather than newname (which stores "test")
> 
> Please let me know how to do this.
> 
> Thanks.
> -Nitin

FYI see also the Save and Load functions in the Hmisc package. -Frank

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