That works greatly. Thanks a lot! On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 8:59 PM, R. Michael Weylandt < michael.weyla...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Read the help page for load....particularly the part about environments. > > E.g., > > a <- 3 > save("a", file = "temp.RData") > > a <- 4 > > env <- new.env() > load("temp.RData", env) > > identical(a, 4) > identical(env$a, 3) > > Michael > > On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Michael <comtech....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have already some important variables in the current R session; > > > > and I wanted to load some rData file which was saved during the last R > > session using "save.image"... > > > > But how do I avoid the newly loaded data/variables messing with my > existing > > data/variables? > > > > In Matlab, I can do: > > > > mynewdata=load("imagefromlastRsession.rData") > > > > and then I can access the variables therein as follows: > > > > mynewdata.variable1 > > mynewdata.variable2 > > mynewdata.variable3 > > ... > > ... > > ... > > > > As you can see, this way, these variables won't interfere with my > existing > > variables in the current R session... > > > > How to do that? > > > > Thanks a lot! > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.