On 9/23/07, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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
I adopted a similar approach in my test function 'aa' (below) and
save(list=newname) did the trick. Thanks to Prof. Ripley for pointing this.
Best,
Nitin
> 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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