Dear Readers, Hi All, to drive my R knowlegde a bit further I followed the advice of some of you by reading Chambers: Programming with data. I tried some examples from the book: -- cut -- setClass("track", representation (x = "numeric", y = "numeric")) track <- function(x, y) { # an object representing measurements 'y', tracked at positions 'x' x <- as(x, "numeric") y <- as(y, "numeric") if(length(x) != length(y)) { stop("x, y should have equal length!") } new("track", x = x, y = y) } dumpMethod("track", "track") setMethod("show", "track", function(object) { xy = rbind(object at x, object at y) dimanmes(xy) = list(c("x", "y"), 1:ncol(y)) show(xy) }) setMethod("plot", signature(x = "track", y = "missing"), function(x, y, ...) plot(unclass(x), xlab = "Position", ylab = "Value", ...) ) dumpMethod("plot", "track") -- cut -- Where do I find the dumped data? Is it in a single file or is every dump stored in a separate file? Where is it stored on my drive? Kind regards Georg