[R] pickle in R

[Patrick Burns]

On 03/02/2010 23:20, Frank E Harrell Jr 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?

Or possibly 'attach' rather than 'load'.

Pat

>
> Frank
>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:09 AM, mkna005 mkna005
>> <mkna005 at 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
>>>
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