Functions you've loaded using source() should be saved. For loading packages automatically, create a function called .First and save it in that workspace. Anything in that function will be carried out when the workspace is loaded.
Sarah On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:27 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I hope there's a simple way to achieve what I want, but I haven't found the > way. > > I do microarray analysis using R and a number of packages as well as some > functions created my myself. > When I save the workspace, it saves all the data structures, that's great... > But when I click (I'm on Windows XP, if it matters) on teh resulting .RData > file, I have to reload the functions I made, as well as the relevant > packages. It is not really a big deal, but sometimes I want to give a > colleague something I'm working on, and it would be a lot easier to just > give the .RData file, without adding the extras. Especially when it comes to > my own functions. I was hoping they'd be saved, because I see them listed > after 'ls()' but they're not. > > I'm starting to suspect that this is another reason why people build > packages... but it seems a bit involved, especially in Windows. I was shown > how to do it in Linux and it wasn't painful, but in Windows... ouch. Tried > and failed repeatedly. Gave up. > > Any comments appreciated! > > Jose > -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
