readRDS and saveRDS

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Duncan Murdoch

On 18/10/2011 9:37 AM, Hadley Wickham wrote:

Hi all,

Is there any chance that readRDS and saveRDS might one day become
read.rds and write.rds? ?That would make them more consistent with the
other reading and writing functions.

Ending names in .foo is a bad idea because of the S3 naming conventions, so
I think this is unlikely. ?But you can always create an alias yourself...

I always thought that S3 was part of the reason for read.ext write.ext. In:

"/path/file.ext"

the "class" of the file is "ext".  I kind of like the idea of taking
this farther, generic functions read/write dispatch to the appropriate
method depending on the class of the file.  Generally, only read/write
would be used, specifying the specific method as needed.  read.rda and
write.rda could replace load/save where: dat <- read.rda() would
create an environment, dat rather than simply loading them into the
global environment.

Though this is more of a hypothetical situation than a suggestion for change.

Duncan Murdoch

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