[R] compare objects in two different workspaces

[Shi, Tao]

In fact, they have objects with exact same names.  They were created by the same code at different time points.  The code is not version-controlled, so I only have the most recent version, but I want to know what's changed.

Tao




----- Original Message -----
> From: Bert Gunter <gunter.berton at gene.com>
> To: R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weylandt at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Shi, Tao" <shidaxia at yahoo.com>; "r-help at r-project.org" <r-help at r-project.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2013 1:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [R] compare objects in two different workspaces
> 
> ... but you need to load them into different environments in case they
> have objects with the same name, right?
> 
> -- Bert
> 
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:25 PM, R. Michael Weylandt
> <michael.weylandt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Shi, Tao <shidaxia at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>  Hi list,
>>> 
>>>  Is there a easy way to compare objects in two different workspace files 
> (i.e. .RData files) in R?  I can use some generic file compare softwares (e.g. 
> BeyondCompare) to binary comparison, but when it says they're different you 
> can't tell where the difference are from.
>> 
>>  Load them both and compare within R?
>> 
>>  MW
>> 
>>> 
>>>  Thanks!
>>> 
>>>  Tao
>>> 
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