Re: [R] How to save and restore a workspace

2017-10-26 Thread PIKAL Petr
r-help mailing list > Subject: Re: [R] How to save and restore a workspace > > Saving your workspace means that the variables you currently have defined in > your session [ everything that shows up when you type ls() ] are saved to a > file, > by default named “.RData”. To

Re: [R] How to save and restore a workspace

2017-10-25 Thread MacQueen, Don
Saving your workspace means that the variables you currently have defined in your session [ everything that shows up when you type ls() ] are saved to a file, by default named “.RData”. To restore the workspace, you use the “Load Workspace” command and navigate to the (same) .RData file. Its def

Re: [R] How to save and restore a workspace

2017-10-23 Thread Jeff Newmiller
To be specific, the effect of loading packages with the "library" function is NOT saved when you save the workspace... and if you come back much later after you have updated some packages the old saved objects may not work well with those new packages. At the very least you have to re-load all n

Re: [R] How to save and restore a workspace

2017-10-23 Thread Bert Gunter
Suggestion: Read the "Intro to R tutorial" that ships with R. Alternatively, there are also many good online tutorials, some free, some not. You'll need to spend some time and effort to learn R's basic data structures and paradigms even if you don't get involved in any serious programming. If thi

Re: [R] How to save and restore a workspace

2017-10-23 Thread Jim Lemon
Hi Jon, Saving your workspace doesn't mean that everything will be rerun when you start a new R session. I just means that persistent objects like data frames will be there. If you type: objects() you will see all of those things that were there when you ended in the last session. Things like com

[R] How to save and restore a workspace

2017-10-23 Thread jonnvan
Hello, I recently downloaded R in hopes of learning to use it for statistics. I have promptly run into a problem, as I am unable to save, and later recover, a workspace so I can resume work where I left off. I am using Windows. I indicate "yes" to the pop up after q(). Then when I later reopen