[R] S-Plus 2000 <-> R 1.0.1

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Edward J. Czilli wrote:

> Good day:
> 
> Let's say that I have a data frame in S-Plus 2000 (Win98 version). 
> 
> I want to use the same data frame with R on another computer.
> 
> Questions:
> 
> 1) Can R read S-Plus data frames? Can S-Plus 2000 read R data 
> frames?

No, no.  The first is possible (S data frames are external objects,
even if under S-PLUS 2000 they often have mapped names), but R objects
only exist inside R workspaces.  [Yes, I know they can be save-d,
but they are saved as a workspace containing just one object.]

Ross has talked about adding the ability for R to read S objects, but this
would need to be done by someone who has seen the S specs and not the
S code (and I have seen the code but not the specs: I have no idea if
they are public knowledge).

> 2) How can i move the data frame between the two systems?  Do I 
> need to use dump()?

I would use write.table and read.table.  You could also use dump and
source, but the output is hardly human-readable for data frames.
I tend to kep all my datasets as text files anyway, so I can read them into
any version of R or S.


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