[R] How do you organize the objects you produced?

ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Mon, 25 Mar 2002 21:25:26 -0000

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Rikkoe at softhome.net wrote:

> It would be nice to hear how you organize the R-objects you produced. I
> found almost nothing about that neither in the R-manuals nor in two books
> about S.

They do explain about packages.

> For example I am trying to find out, how to load the functions that I have
> written and that are now saved in a .txt-file in a Windows directory. Is
> copying and pasting it to the RGui console really the only feasible way to
> do that? Constructing packages, similar to the ones included in the basic R
> system, is probably too complicated for a beginner like me, isn´t it?

No.

> I wonder why manuals and books just explain how to write functions, but not
> how to keep and to reload them. I have got a similar problem with my data.
I

Um, a book called `S Programming' does.

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