[R] pickle in R

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>
> On 4/02/2010, at 12:09 PM, mkna005 mkna005 wrote:
>
>> Hello all!
>> I was wondering if there is a way to pickle an R object into a file
>> like it is possible in python? Such as you have an complicated R
>> object(not a dataframe) , you use a function to write it to a file and
>> than you have a function where you can retrieve the object from that
>> file later on.
>
> ?dput
> ?dget

Those functions objects in an ASCII format. To save things in a binary
format, see also:

?save
?load

-steve

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