[R] 'save' saved object names instead of objects

[Jean-Christophe BOUËTTÉ]

Hi,
did you try
load(file="D:/Simulation Results/sim 9-23-11 deta")
without the assignment ?
look at ?load

2011/9/23 Downey, Patrick <PDowney at urban.org>:
> Hello,
>
> I created an array to hold the results of a series of simulations I'm
> running:
>
> d.eta <- array(0,dim=c(3,3,200))
>
> <simulation goes here and populates the array but it's not important>
>
> Then I tried to save the results using this:
>
> save(d.eta,file="D:/Simulation Results/sim 9-23-11 deta")
>
> When I later tried to reload them using this:
>
> d.eta <- load(file="D:/Simulation Results/sim 9-23-11 deta")
>
> I got the following:
>
>> class(d.eta)
> [1] "character"
>> d.eta
> [1] "d.eta"
>
> Why didn't it load the original object that I tried to save (the array)? Is
> the problem with how I'm saving or how I'm loading? Any explanation would
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> And to head off this question, I did check after the simulation, before
> saving, and the d.eta object is an array of numbers.
>
> Thanks,
> Mitch
>
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