On 06/03/2014 23:26, Hui Du wrote:> Hi All,
>
> I have 2 objects, A and B, where
>
> object.size(A) = 5M and object.size(B) = 80M.
>
> However, after I save those two objects as workspaces, say,
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> save(A, file = "A.Rdata") and save(B, file = "B.Rdata")
>
> On disk, the size of 'A.Rdata' is 0.22 M but the size of
'B.Rdata' is 560M. Could someone tell me how come the workspace B.RData
got increased so much and how to make it smaller?
Please read ?save: compression is on by default.
> Many thanks.
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> HXD
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