R help - Feb 2006 - (newbie) Saving the workspace in .txt format

(newbie question) How do I save the workspace in Windows text format 
(with the file extension .txt)? Also, having saved it and edited it, 
how do I load it back into the workspace?

The setup is:

Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2
R 2.2.0
English language
Administrator privileges are enabled

Tom Jones, a veteran computer professional who is a newbie to R

On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Thomas L Jones wrote:
> (newbie question) How do I save the workspace in Windows text format
> (with the file extension .txt)? Also, having saved it and edited it,
> how do I load it back into the workspace?
`save' is a command in R, and it has a ascii argument.  So you could do
save.image("workspace.txt", ascii=TRUE) to save, and
load("workspace.txt")
to reload.

The underlying assumption seems to be that text format files are editable 
(by a human).  Lots of data formats are text files but have many rigid 
restrictions:  PDF is one example and R save formats are others.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595

Hi

you can also try to look at

?savehistory

which enables you to save your latest commands to a file. Or use menu 
item save history. You can edit this saved file and you can use part 
of it or whole by loadhistory or just by copy/paste to R console.

HTH
Petr



On 3 Feb 2006 at 7:41, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

Date sent:      	Fri, 3 Feb 2006 07:41:36 +0000 (GMT)
From:           	Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
To:             	Thomas L Jones <DrJones at alum.mit.edu>
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Subject:        	Re: [R] (newbie) Saving the workspace in .txt format
> On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Thomas L Jones wrote:
> 
> > (newbie question) How do I save the workspace in Windows text format
> > (with the file extension .txt)? Also, having saved it and edited it,
> > how do I load it back into the workspace?
> 
> `save' is a command in R, and it has a ascii argument.  So you could
> do save.image("workspace.txt", ascii=TRUE) to save, and
> load("workspace.txt") to reload.
> 
> The underlying assumption seems to be that text format files are
> editable (by a human).  Lots of data formats are text files but have
> many rigid restrictions:  PDF is one example and R save formats are
> others.
> 
> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South
> Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG,
> UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
> 
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