[R] Saving environment object

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Not so in general, so we need the details asked for in the posting guide, 
including a reproducible example.  (Environments get saved all the time: 
they are a fundamental part of R's operations.)

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, Benjamin Otto wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When I create an environment object with new.env() and populate it with
> values then how can I save it into an .RData file properly, so it can be
> loaded later on in a new session?
>
> Saving an environment object with save() or save.image() results in an error
> message when loading again:
>
> Error: protect(): protection stack overflow
>
> Regards,
>
> benjamin
>
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