Re: [R] .rda vs. .RData

2012-04-24 Thread Shi, Tao
Thank you, all! > > From: Barry Rowlingson >To: Jeff Newmiller >Cc: "Shi, Tao" ; Ista Zahn ; >"r-help@r-project.org" >Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 12:36 AM >Subject: Re: [R] .rda vs. .RData > >On Tue, A

Re: [R] .rda vs. .RData

2012-04-24 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > My bad, I was thinking of rds (?saveRDS). RData and rda are mentioned under > ?data as alternate file extensions for the same data format. Sorry for > posting without checking first. Understandable mistake. Confusingly similar file exte

Re: [R] .rda vs. .RData

2012-04-23 Thread Jeff Newmiller
t;> To: Jeff Newmiller >> Cc: "Shi, Tao" ; "r-help@r-project.org" > >> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 3:55 PM >> Subject: Re: [R] .rda vs. .RData >> >> Hi Jeff. >> >> Can you point me toward the documentation for "rda saves c

Re: [R] .rda vs. .RData

2012-04-23 Thread Ista Zahn
Hi Jeff. Can you point me toward the documentation for "rda saves content of one variable, with no associated name"? I don't seem to find it in ?save ?load etc. Thanks, Ista On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > No, RData saves both the variable name and corresponding content

Re: [R] .rda vs. .RData

2012-04-23 Thread Jeff Newmiller
No, RData saves both the variable name and corresponding content of multiple variables. rda saves content of one variable, with no associated name. The latter allows for greater flexibility in importing the data later into different working environments, the former is convenient for recreating

[R] .rda vs. .RData

2012-04-23 Thread Shi, Tao
Are they the same with .RData being the newer format?  Thanks, ...Tao __ 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,