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"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 2:29 PM Robert Baer <rb...@atsu.edu> wrote: > You may misunderstand how RData files work. Note that RData files are > not necessarily JUST a single variable unless they were explicitly > written to store a single variable only. > > If you save a single variable (a dataframe, for example) named 'mydata' > with save(mydata, file = "saveddata.RData") and then load the variable > back into a new R session with y <- load("saveddata.RData"), your data > will still be contained in a variable named 'mydata', not renamed y. > Yes indeedy. In fact, y will be: Value A character vector of the names of objects created, invisibly. > > Look at ?load and ?save > Which should have been the OP's first port of call.... > > On 7/22/2020 5:47 AM, Jim Lemon wrote: > > Hi Jason, > > I assume that you actually have "WVS.RData" in your working directory > > when you try to load it. Otherwise you will get an error message. If > > you don't get an error message when you do this: > > > > load("WVS.RData") > > > > there will be a new object in your workspace. So if you want to see > > what the object is, try this: > > > > objects() > > load("WVS.RData") > > objects() > > > > Unless you have already run the "load" command, there will be a new > > object in the list. That is what you're looking for. Say that object > > is named "x". You can look at the first part of it with: > > > > head(x) > > > > and maybe do some basic editing with: > > > > edit(x) > > > > Good luck. > > > > Jim > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.