That works greatly. Thanks a lot!

On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 8:59 PM, R. Michael Weylandt <
michael.weylandt@gmail.com> wrote:

> Read the help page for load....particularly the part about environments.
>
> E.g.,
>
> a <- 3
> save("a", file = "temp.RData")
>
> a <- 4
>
> env <- new.env()
> load("temp.RData", env)
>
> identical(a, 4)
> identical(env$a, 3)
>
> Michael
>
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Michael <comtech.usa@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have already some important variables in the current R session;
> >
> > and I wanted to load some rData file which was saved during the last R
> > session using "save.image"...
> >
> > But how do I avoid the newly loaded data/variables messing with my
> existing
> > data/variables?
> >
> > In Matlab, I can do:
> >
> > mynewdata=load("imagefromlastRsession.rData")
> >
> > and then I can access the variables therein as follows:
> >
> > mynewdata.variable1
> >  mynewdata.variable2
> >  mynewdata.variable3
> > ...
> > ...
> > ...
> >
> > As you can see, this way, these variables won't interfere with my
> existing
> > variables in the current R session...
> >
> > How to do that?
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
> >
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