Thank you Jean Christophe and Sarah. You are both, of course, absolutely correct.
-----Original Message----- From: Jean-Christophe BOUËTTÉ [mailto:jcboue...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 9:44 AM To: Downey, Patrick Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] 'save' saved object names instead of objects Hi, did you try load(file="D:/Simulation Results/sim 9-23-11 deta") without the assignment ? look at ?load 2011/9/23 Downey, Patrick <pdow...@urban.org>: > Hello, > > I created an array to hold the results of a series of simulations I'm > running: > > d.eta <- array(0,dim=c(3,3,200)) > > <simulation goes here and populates the array but it's not important> > > Then I tried to save the results using this: > > save(d.eta,file="D:/Simulation Results/sim 9-23-11 deta") > > When I later tried to reload them using this: > > d.eta <- load(file="D:/Simulation Results/sim 9-23-11 deta") > > I got the following: > >> class(d.eta) > [1] "character" >> d.eta > [1] "d.eta" > > Why didn't it load the original object that I tried to save (the > array)? Is the problem with how I'm saving or how I'm loading? Any > explanation would be greatly appreciated. > > And to head off this question, I did check after the simulation, > before saving, and the d.eta object is an array of numbers. > > Thanks, > Mitch > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.