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Nick
Nick

Reputation: 53

Why does RStudio save my vector as a string?

I have having trouble saving objects with RStudio. Below is my console. Why does data turn out to be a string and not a vector?

> test=c(1,2,3,4,5)
> save(test,file="G:/R/Projects/Forecast Assymetry/Output/result.Rdata")
> data<-load(file="G:/R/Projects/Forecast Assymetry/Output/result.Rdata")
> data
[1] "test"

Upvotes: 1

Views: 388

Answers (2)

pooopies
pooopies

Reputation: 78

Simply do

test=c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
save(test, file = "G:/R/Projects/Forecast Assymetry/Output/result.Rdata")
rm(test)
load(file = "G:/R/Projects/Forecast Assymetry/Output/result.Rdata")
test

This will work, you don't want to point your load to anything, it will simply conserve the object names.

Upvotes: 2

asb
asb

Reputation: 4432

The return value of load (see ?load) is 

"A character vector of the names of objects created, invisibly."

which is what you are getting. There is however an object created by the name of test already in your workspace. For example, try:

str(test)

after the load command.

Upvotes: 2

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