[Rd] readRDS and saveRDS

[Hadley Wickham]

>> Is there any chance that readRDS and saveRDS might one day become
>> read.rds and write.rds?  That would make them more consistent with the
>> other reading and writing functions.
>
> Ending names in .foo is a bad idea because of the S3 naming conventions, so
> I think this is unlikely.  But you can always create an alias yourself...

It just makes teaching that much harder.  We have the pairs:

* read.csv and write.csv
* load and save
* readRDS and saveRDS

Even loadRDS/saveRDS or readRDS/writeRDS would be better than the current combo.

Hadley

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