On Thu, 17-Dec-2009 at 03:13PM +1800, Peng Yu wrote:
|> Currently, I load the RData file then ls() and str(). But loading the file
|> takes too long if the file is big. Most of the time, I only interested what
|> the variables are in the the file and the attributes of the variables (like
|> if it is a data.frame, matrix, what are the colnames/rownames, etc.)
|>
|> I'm wondering if there is any facility in R to help me avoid loading the
|> whole file.
I have a pretty nifty way of seeing what's in such a file, but I still
have to load all of the binary file before I can do so. If it's
taking you such a long time, maybe you could keep a larger number of
smaller RData files.
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