[R] get and save

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 11-09-09 6:01 AM, Ivan Calandra wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Why don't you just save tmp?
> save(tmp, file = paste(name, "rda", sep = "."))
>
> I don't think it makes much difference, at least not with your example.
> Or does it?

That saves it with the name "tmp", not "d2" as Göran wanted.

Duncan Murdoch

>
> Ivan
>
>
> Le 9/9/2011 11:55, Göran Broström a écrit :
>> I have a data frame 'tmp' and a vector 'name' containing 'd2'.
>> I want to save 'tmp' under the name hidden in 'name', and the file must have
>> the same name, plus the extension '.rda'.
>> So I try
>>
>>> tmp
>>    x y
>> 1 1 3
>> 2 2 4
>>> name
>> [1] "d2"
>>> assign(name, tmp)
>>> summary(get(name))
>>         x              y
>> Min.   :1.00   Min.   :3.00
>> 1st Qu.:1.25   1st Qu.:3.25
>> Median :1.50   Median :3.50
>> Mean   :1.50   Mean   :3.50
>> 3rd Qu.:1.75   3rd Qu.:3.75
>> Max.   :2.00   Max.   :4.00
>>> save(get(name), file = paste(name, "rda", sep = "."))
>> Error in save(get(name), file = paste(name, "rda", sep = ".")) :
>>    object ‘get(name)’ not found
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++
>> I can't figure out where I 'get' it wrong.
>>
>> In real life I have a bunch of text files named like 'd1.txt', ...,
>> 'd100.txt'.
>> I want to convert all of them to R data files, with one data frame in each
>> named d1, ..., d100.
>>
>> Any suggestion is much appreciated!
>>
>>
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