Hello, I am very sad to let you know that my husband Jim died on 18th September. I apologise for not letting you know earlier but I had trouble finding the password for his phone. Kind regards, Juel
On Fri, 29 Sep 2023, 01:48 Shu Fai Cheung <shufai.che...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi All, > > There is a thread about the use of save(), load(), saveRDS(), and > loadRDS(). It led me to think about a question regarding them. > > In my personal work, I prefer using saveRDS() and loadRDS() as I don't like > the risk of overwriting anything in the global environment. I also like the > freedom to name an object when reading it from a file. > > However, for teaching, I have to teach save() and load() because, in my > discipline, it is common for researchers to share their datasets on the > internet using the format saved by save(), and so students need to know how > to use load() and what will happen when using it. Actually, I can't recall > encountering datasets shared by the .rds format. I have been wondering why > save() was usually used in that case. > > That discussion led me to read the help pages again and I noticed the > following warning, from the help page of saveRDS(): > > "Files produced by saveRDS (or serialize to a file connection) are not > suitable as an interchange format between machines, for example to download > from a website. The files produced by save > <http://127.0.0.1:18888/library/base/help/save> have a header identifying > the file type and so are better protected against erroneous use." > > When will the problem mentioned in the warning occur? That is, when will a > file saved by saveRDS() not be read correctly? Saved in Linux and then read > in Windows? Is it possible to create a reproducible error? > > Regards, > Shu Fai > > [[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. > [[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.
