Now that I acutally read the original question: If there are .RData files in other directories that you want to attach(), you can certainly do that. One difference between R and S-plus is that in S-plus you can attach() a directory at position 1, effectively making that the place that new objects are stored. In R, attach()ing at position 1 is not allowed. I must say that I like the way R works better, as it does a better job at preventing me from keeping garbage around.
Best, Andy > From: Liaw, Andy > > > From: Frank E Harrell Jr > > > > Petr Pikal wrote: > > > Hallo > > > > > > On 9 Jun 2004 at 2:06, Utsav Boobna wrote: > > > > > > > > >>Hi, > > >> I am a newbie to R, just trying to switch from > > >>Splus. I am wondering to know if there is any such > > >>command in R as "attach" in Splus which can be used to > > >>attach the full directory. > > > > > > > > > I would recommend you to spent some time going through > > docummentation and > > > especially FAQs. > > > > > > getwd and setwd for setting the working directory > > > > > > but in R objects are stored in one file .Rdata. > > > > I prefer to control which objects are stored, and to use > > compression, by > > using save( ) and load( ), rather than using the .Rdata mechanism. > > save( ) can store one object or an entire series of objects > > in one .rda > > file. > > I mostly do the same. For fairly large objects or objects > that I do not > want to accidentally alter during a session, I use attach() instead of > load(). One convenience of attach() is that since the objects are not > loaded into .GlobalEnv, I would have a less cluttered .RData > even if I do > save the workspace when I q(). > > Cheers, > Andy > > > > Frank > > > > > > > > OTOH in S+ objects are (were - I did not use it since quite > > a lot time) stored as > > > separate files. > > > > > > For attaching objects see > > > > > > ?attach > > > > > > Cheers > > > Petr > > > > > > > > >>Also, any idea/referrence about, how to load c > > >>functions in R would be highly appreciated. > > >> > > >>Thanks, > > >>Utsav > > > > > > Petr Pikal > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > > > > > > > -- > > Frank E > > Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine > > Department of Biostatistics > > Vanderbilt University ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
