readRDS and saveRDS
On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 08:37 -0500, 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. Hadley
I would hope not. Those would then look like S3 methods for class "rds" and cause confusion of a different sort. It would be better to make the existing read.foo and write.foo functions drop their "." but that is unlikely to happen given all the code that would inevitably break. G
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