On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 13:19 -0500, Marc Schwartz (via MN) wrote:
> A search for the list2ascii() function, led me to this post by Mike
> Prager:
>
> http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/66335.html
>
> in which Mike specifically notes:
>
> "To write it to a file that can be read by R, I would suggest using
> "dput" instead."
>
>
> Thus, instead of using list2ascii() on your list object, use:
>
> sink("YourTextFile")
> dput(YourListObject)
> sink()
>
> You can then re-read the text file back into R using:
>
> source("YourTextFile")
Actually, quick correction here. That should be:
NewListObject <- dget("YourTextFile")
dget() will enable simple assignment of the textual input, whereas
source() will just evaluate it and assignment with source() creates a
list object, unless you use:
NewListObject <- source("YourTextFile")$value
Marc
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