Dear Witold E Wolski, Re:
> I am have a procedure which generates multidimensional arrays. > > To compute them is expensive so I want to store them in order to be > able to analyse them later. > > I am using at the moment > > problem is that the array is always assigned to a variable ma (the > computation is in a loop). > Than I generate a file name and store it (i.e) > save(ma, file="ma1.txt") > save(ma, file="ma2.txt") > ... > > > problem starts when I want to load it > load("ma1.RData") # loads in ma > load("ma2.RData") # overrides ma > > How can i prevent this behaviour. Is there a better way to store > multidimensional arrays? > > regards > > > -- > Witold Eryk Wolski It would be no problem if you processed one such array at a time, so 1 load("ma1.RData") # loads in ma 2 process array ma and save/print output 3 load("ma2.RData") # overrides ma 4 process array ma (now the new one) and save etc. ... This can be automated by reading the directory contents and make a list of "ma-files", to be processed in a loop. (I can provide an example if you like). Hope this helps, Best wishes, Dr. Franklin Bretschneider Dept of Biology Utrecht Unversity Padualaan 8 3584 CH Utrecht The Netherlands f.bretschnei...@uu.nl [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.