On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18/10/2011 9:37 AM, Hadley Wickham wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Is there any chance that readRDS and saveRDS might one day become >> read.rds and write.rds? That would make them more consistent with the >> other reading and writing functions. > > Ending names in .foo is a bad idea because of the S3 naming conventions, so > I think this is unlikely. But you can always create an alias yourself...
I always thought that S3 was part of the reason for read.ext write.ext. In: "/path/file.ext" the "class" of the file is "ext". I kind of like the idea of taking this farther, generic functions read/write dispatch to the appropriate method depending on the class of the file. Generally, only read/write would be used, specifying the specific method as needed. read.rda and write.rda could replace load/save where: dat <- read.rda() would create an environment, dat rather than simply loading them into the global environment. Though this is more of a hypothetical situation than a suggestion for change. > > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology Programmer Analyst II, ATS Statistical Consulting Group University of California, Los Angeles https://joshuawiley.com/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
