[R] saving object function

[Joe P King]

I did what you said and it worked perfectly, but I have tried to save some of my objects using paste because I want to limit the number of significant digits and one matrix has some empty spaces I use NA in, and I want those left blank, but when I paste into an object it doesn’t hold that formatting, any suggestions? How can I have a matrix that isn’t full to have empty spaces? If I just tell it " ", it turns the entire matrix into characters.

Joe King
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-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Wiley [mailto:jwiley.psych at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 11:43 PM
To: Joe P King
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] saving object function

Hi Joe,

You can just put the results into a named list, for example:

functest<-function(x){
  a <- x + 1
  b <- x + 2
  c <- x + 3
  results <- list("a" = a, "b" = b, "c" = c)
  return(results)
}

functest(1)$a

It is important to name the list or you would have to refer to it as:
functest(1)[[1]]  for the first element and so on.

HTH,

Josh

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Joe P King <jp at joepking.com> wrote:
> Ok so if I have a function:
>
>
>
> functest<-function(x){
>
>            a<-x+1
>
>            b<-x+2
>
>            c<-x+3
>
> paste(a)
>
> paste(b)
>
> paste(c)
>
> }
>
>
>
> Now I know I can do cat(), or return() on one of them but if I was to 
> run the function with any number, how could I create objects to save 
> so I could do, I am wondering if I have more than one object within my function.
>
>
>
> functest$a and get the result. I hope this is clear.
>
>
>
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