On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, David Marimont wrote:
> I'm having trouble with save and load in R 1.4.0 (on RH 7.2) I
originally
> noticed this with a large R object, but it happens with a tiny one as well:
>
> > a <- c(1,2,3)
> > save(a,file="test.RData")
> > a1 <- load("test.RData")
> > print(a1)
> NULL
If you try
> a <- c(1,2,3)
> save(a, file="test.RData")
> rm(a)
> load("test.RData")
> a
[1] 1 2 3
it works. It seems as if 'load' has no return value (NULL), but we use
it
for its side effect, i.e. reloading datasets. See ?load; no return value
is specified there.
G?ran >
> The file "test.RData" is created, and it does have something in
it. When
> I tried saving a large object, I watched what was happening with xosview,
> and there is some serious disk-writing happening. When I tried loading,
> there is some serious disk-reading happening. But no object is returned.
> Am I missing something obvious here? Thanks.
>
> David Marimont
>
>
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