[R] pickle in R

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

Gábor Csárdi wrote:
> Perhaps you are looking for ?serialize.
> 
> Best,
> Gábor

Wouldn't save( ) and load( ) be faster and result in much smaller files?

Frank

> 
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:09 AM, mkna005 mkna005
> <mkna005 at aucklanduni.ac.nz> wrote:
>> Hello all!
>> I was wondering if there is a way to pickle an R object into a file
>> like it is possible in python? Such as you have an complicated R
>> object(not a dataframe) , you use a function to write it to a file and
>> than you have a function where you can retrieve the object from that
>> file later on.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Christoph
>>
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