Dear Ista, This worked fine, and it does not require any specific package. I was trying sink but with cat instead of print and it was not working. This was very helpful, thanks a lot. Alberto -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/save-rds-as-text-tp4670925p4671168.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.