Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10007211958530.13766-100000@auk.stats>
Date: 2000-07-21T19:07:22Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: save/load hooks
In-Reply-To: <39789901.6E8B7656@nceas.ucsb.edu>
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Timothy H. Keitt wrote:
> I'd like to suggest a small feature be added to R. It would be nice if
> "load" and "save" had function hooks for object initialization and
> finalization, e.g.,
>
> load.hook <- function(x) UseMethod("load.hook")
> save.hook <- function(x) UseMethod("save.hook")
>
> These would then be called on each object saved or loaded. The default
> method would do nothing. This would allow saved objects to
> reinitialize their state when loaded.
R objects contain their complete state as far as R is concerned. Could you
give us an example of why you want this? I guess you must have some
non-standard objects in mind, in which case it seems wasteful to do this
for all R objects in a workspace.
Another potential problem on loading is ordering: how do you ensure that
what you want to do is already available? The workspace is loaded before
any profiles, so only a minimal set of functions is available, excludng any
packages bar base. And the error handling at that stage is I think
incomplete, given that tey() does not work in profiles.
--
Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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