R-beta: Re: your mail

[Gregory R. Warnes]

R does not read the Splus data storage format.  To transport objects
between Splus and R, I've used dump() in Splus to save the object in a
text file, and then use source() in R to read it in. 


On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Jean-Francois Gibrat wrote:

> Hi,
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> 
> I am currently trying to switch from Splus to R and I would like to know
> whether there is a way of transfering Splus objects stored on disk into the R
> environment. In Splus I would do this using the function get, e.g., foo <-
> get(foo,where="dirname") where dirname is the name of a directory containing
> the Splus objects. In R, argument 'where' of function get appears to be
> replaced by argument 'envir', whose meaning is rather nebulous for me at the
> moment.....
> Thanks for answering me. Sorry if this question has been already asked zillion
> of times, as it is likely to have been.
> 
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