[R] How to reach the column names in a huge .RData file without loading it

[Bert Gunter]

Is it really a .Rdata file? If so, the answer is no, AFAIK, since
.Rdata files are serialized (binary) versions of e.g. worksheets that
can contain many different data objects. "colnames" has no meaning in
this context.

Corrections welcome if I have it wrong!

Cheers,
Bert
Bert Gunter

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On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Lida Zeighami <lid.zigh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a huge .RData file and I need just to get the colnames of it. so is
> there any way to reach the column names without loading or reading the
> whole file?
> Since the file is so big and I need to repeat this process several times,
> so it takes so long to load the file first and then take the colnames!
>
> Thanks
>
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