IMO you are being a bit too literal. It is absolutely possible to load the file into a dedicated environment and use the $ or [[]] extraction operator to access a specific object in that environment.
?load ?new.env Or, you can attach the file, copy to a new variable, and detach. (see examples in ?load) On November 5, 2021 3:26:49 PM PDT, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> wrote: >You can't. You can only save and load whole .RData files. You can, of >course, save and load separate R objects in separate files. But note >in ?save.image: > >"For saving single R objects, saveRDS() is mostly preferable to >save(), notably because of the functional nature of readRDS(), as >opposed to load(). " > >You may wish to search on "data serialization" (e.g. on Wikipedia) or >similar to better understand the underlying ideas. > >Bert Gunter > >"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 ) > >Bert Gunter > >"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 Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 3:01 PM Bogdan Tanasa <tan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> I saved my work in a Rimage that contains multiple objects ; >> >> the objects were generated with Monocle3 : >> >> https://cole-trapnell-lab.github.io/monocle3/docs/starting/ >> >> one object is called CDS. >> >> How shall I extract this object CDS (that has a complex structure) from the >> R image ? >> >> thank you, >> >> Bogdan >> >> [[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. > >______________________________________________ >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. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ 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.
