On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 02:34:52PM +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote: > R objects in blobs - I never thought about that. Could you elaborate on how > to do something like that (I am using RMySQL)?
Look at help(serialize) -- any R object can be turned into a suitable representation, either binary (more efficient) or ascii (possibly 'safer'). Store that, retrieve it later, reconstruct the object and be merry :) > tmpDf <- data.frame(a=1:10, b=LETTERS[1:10], c=rnorm(10)) > serDf <- serialize(tmpDf, NULL, ascii=TRUE) > rm(tmpDf) > head(unserialize(serDf)) a b c 1 1 A -0.6945820 2 2 B -0.2960084 3 3 C -0.2514302 4 4 D -0.7318635 5 5 E -0.1698489 6 6 F 0.4331521 > Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
