Currently, I load the RData file then ls() and str(). But loading the file
takes too long if the file is big. Most of the time, I only interested what
the variables are in the the file and the attributes of the variables (like
if it is a data.frame, matrix, what are the colnames/rownames, etc.)

I'm wondering if there is any facility in R to help me avoid loading the
whole file.

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