Does anyone know a way to do the following:
Save a large number of R objects to a file (like load() does) but then
read back only a small named subset of them . As far as I can see,
load() reads back everything.
The context is:
I have an application which will generate a large number of large
Richard Mott wrote:
Does anyone know a way to do the following:
Save a large number of R objects to a file (like load() does) but then
read back only a small named subset of them . As far as I can see,
load() reads back everything.
Save them to individual files when you generate them?
I would suggest saving each object to an individual file with
some sort of systematic file name. That way, you can implement a
rudimentary key-value database and load only the objects you
want. You might be interested in the 'serialize()' and
'unserialize()' functions for this purpose.
If
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
Richard Mott wrote:
Does anyone know a way to do the following:
Save a large number of R objects to a file (like load() does) but then
read back only a small named subset of them . As far as I can see,
load() reads back everything.
Save them
Thanks everyone for help on this. It looks like the solution is a
zillion files.
Richard
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files in a directory.
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On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Barry Rowlingson
On 6/14/05, Richard Mott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know a way to do the following:
Save a large number of R objects to a file (like load() does) but then
read back only a small named subset of them . As far as I can see,
load() reads back everything.
The context is:
I have
