Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:
> Nitin Jain wrote:
>
>> Thanks Professor Ripley and Professor Harrell.
>>
>> Yes, save(list=newname, ...) works.
>>
>> Best,
>> Nitin
>>
>
> What I didn't see how to do with save( ) is to save an object with a
> user-specified internal name that is different from the current name of
> the object. Save in Hmisc goes to extra trouble to accomplish that.
>
save() can't, but this should do it (untested):
local({ assign(newname, value)
save(list=newname)
})
... which may be what you did in Hmisc.
Duncan Murdoch
> Frank
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: Nitin Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 11:14:37 AM
>> Subject: Re: [R] saving results under specified file name
>>
>> >From the help page for save:
>>
>> Arguments:
>>
>> ...: the names of the objects to be saved (as symbols or character
>> strings).
>>
>> list: A character vector containing the names of objects to be
>> saved.
>>
>> so you need save(list=newname, ...).
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Nitin Jain wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I would like to save the results in a specified file name. Here is a
>>> test example:
>>>
>>> aa <- function(xx, newname) {
>>> yy <- xx^2
>>> rdName <- file.path(paste(newname, ".RData", sep = ""))
>>> assign(eval(newname), yy)
>>> save(newname, file=rdName) ## FIXME
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> aa(3, "test")
>>>
>>> load("test.RData")
>>> ls()
>>>
>>> I would like to see test (which should store 9) rather than newname
>>> (which stores "test")
>>>
>>> Please let me know how to do this.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>> -Nitin
>>>
>
>
>
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