[R] 'save' saved object names instead of objects

[Downey, Patrick]

Thank you Jean Christophe and Sarah. You are both, of course, absolutely
correct.


-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Christophe BOUËTTÉ [mailto:jcbouette at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 9:44 AM
To: Downey, Patrick
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] 'save' saved object names instead of objects

Hi,
did you try
load(file="D:/Simulation Results/sim 9-23-11 deta") without the assignment
?
look at ?load

2011/9/23 Downey, Patrick <PDowney at urban.org>:
> Hello,
>
> I created an array to hold the results of a series of simulations I'm
> running:
>
> d.eta <- array(0,dim=c(3,3,200))
>
> <simulation goes here and populates the array but it's not important>
>
> Then I tried to save the results using this:
>
> save(d.eta,file="D:/Simulation Results/sim 9-23-11 deta")
>
> When I later tried to reload them using this:
>
> d.eta <- load(file="D:/Simulation Results/sim 9-23-11 deta")
>
> I got the following:
>
>> class(d.eta)
> [1] "character"
>> d.eta
> [1] "d.eta"
>
> Why didn't it load the original object that I tried to save (the 
> array)? Is the problem with how I'm saving or how I'm loading? Any 
> explanation would be greatly appreciated.
>
> And to head off this question, I did check after the simulation, 
> before saving, and the d.eta object is an array of numbers.
>
> Thanks,
> Mitch
>
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