[R] compare objects in two different workspaces

[Shi, Tao]

Thanks, Bert!  Never used it, but reading it now.

Tao





----- Original Message -----
> From: Bert Gunter <gunter.berton at gene.com>
> To: "Shi, Tao" <shidaxia at yahoo.com>
> Cc: R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weylandt at gmail.com>; "r-help at r-project.org" <r-help at r-project.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2013 2:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [R] compare objects in two different workspaces
> 
> Ummm...
> 
> Have you actually read ?load to see how do this using the
> "environment" argument?
> 
> -- Bert
> 
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Shi, Tao <shidaxia at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>  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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