[R] saving results under specified file name

[Prof Brian Ripley]

>From the help page for save:

Arguments:

      ...: the names of the objects to be saved (as symbols or character
           strings).

     list: A character vector containing the names of objects to be
           saved.

so you need save(list=newname, ...).


On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Nitin Jain wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to save the results in a specified file name.  Here is a 
> test example:
>
> aa <- function(xx, newname) {
> yy <- xx^2
>    rdName <- file.path(paste(newname, ".RData", sep = ""))
>    assign(eval(newname), yy)
> save(newname, file=rdName) ## FIXME
> }
>
>
> aa(3, "test")
>
> load("test.RData")
> ls()
>
> I would like to see test (which should store 9) rather than newname 
> (which stores "test")
>
> Please let me know how to do this.
>
> Thanks.
> -Nitin

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