[R] save() unable to find object

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 31/10/2019 5:17 a.m., Christofer Bogaso wrote:
> As I said the name 'AAA31' is itself a variable. So I cant hard-code
> it within the save() function

Use the list= argument to save().

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 2:45 PM Jim Lemon <drjimlemon using gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Christofer,
>> This is a guess, but have you tried:
>>
>> save(AAA31,file="Save.RData")
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 8:10 PM Christofer Bogaso
>> <bogaso.christofer using gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I wanted to save a few R objects in RData file for some future use.
>>> The names of such R objects are actually dynamic so I used below code
>>> to save them -
>>>
>>> Date = Sys.Date()
>>> assign(paste('AAA', format(Date, "%d"), sep = ""), 5)
>>> save('Date', paste('AAA', format(Date, "%d"), sep = ""), file = 'Save.RData')
>>>
>>> With this, I am getting below error -
>>>
>>> Error in save("Date", paste("AAA", format(Date, "%d"), sep = ""), file
>>> = "Save.RData") :
>>>    object ‘paste("AAA", format(Date, "%d"), sep = "")’ not found
>>>
>>> But I have the object in the workplace -
>>>
>>>> AAA31
>>> [1] 5
>>>
>>> I will really appreciate if someone can point towards the right direction.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
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