You're right. I didn't realize that what happens when attaching is that "a new environment is created on the search path and the elements of a list (including columns of a data frame) or objects in a save file or an environment are *** copied *** into the new environment"
Thanks. -Christos > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Seth Falcon > Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 1:32 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [R] names of objects in .rda > > "Christos Hatzis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > An approach would be to attach it and then use ls() > > No, that really is not an approach. If you load it, then > there is no problem to read the names. The point is not to > load it. This is important when dealing with large objects > or large collections of objects. > > + seth > > -- > Seth Falcon | Computational Biology | Fred Hutchinson Cancer > Research Center http://bioconductor.org > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] 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, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
