[R] viewing, editing and saving an RDATA file

[Robert Baer]

You may misunderstand how RData files work.  Note that RData files are 
not necessarily JUST a single variable unless they were explicitly 
written to store a single variable only.

If you save a single variable (a dataframe, for example) named 'mydata' 
with save(mydata, file = "saveddata.RData") and then load the variable 
back into a new R session with y  <- load("saveddata.RData"), your data 
will still be contained in a variable named 'mydata',  not renamed  y.

Look at ?load and ?save

On 7/22/2020 5:47 AM, Jim Lemon wrote:
> Hi Jason,
> I assume that you actually have "WVS.RData" in your working directory
> when you try to load it. Otherwise you will get an error message. If
> you don't get an error message when you do this:
>
> load("WVS.RData")
>
> there will be a new object in your workspace. So if you want to see
> what the object is, try this:
>
> objects()
> load("WVS.RData")
> objects()
>
> Unless you have already run the "load" command, there will be a new
> object in the list. That is what you're looking for. Say that object
> is named "x". You can look at the first part of it with:
>
> head(x)
>
> and maybe do some basic editing with:
>
> edit(x)
>
> Good luck.
>
> Jim
>
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