On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Martin Maechler <[email protected]> wrote: [snip] > Do consider (and teach!) using attach("foobar.rda") for *.rda files > which I often find quite preferable to load(). > I forgot who (from R-core) introduced this idea, > but I do like it: It rehabilitates attach() into a "decent R > function" :-)
This is amazing. In two sentences, you made working with *.rda files containing multiple objects easier (which makes save.image suddenly seem much more useful) and provided a good answer to, "why was it written if it should be avoided?" --Josh > > Martin > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching
