[R] Saving environment object

[Luke Tierney]

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, Benjamin Otto wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When I create an environment object with new.env() and populate it with
> values then how can I save it into an .RData file properly, so it can be
> loaded later on in a new session?
>
> Saving an environment object with save() or save.image() results in an error
> message when loading again:
>
> Error: protect(): protection stack overflow

save/load works fine (and is used in many places):

> e<-new.env()
> assign("e", e, envir = e)
> assign("x", 2, envir = e)
> save(e, file = "test.Rda")
> rm(e)
> load("test.Rda")
> e
<environment: 0x1c2c748>

There may be something about the values you are using that is causing
problems, but there is no way to tell without a reproducible example.

luke

>
> Regards,
>
> benjamin
>
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