On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, dstates at umich.edu wrote:
Full_Name: David States
Version: 2.6.0
OS: Windows XP64
Submission from: (NULL) (141.211.38.9)
# The pair of commands
#
# dput(object, "file.dput")
# object = dget("file.dput")
#
# should be a no op, but this is not working correctly for all objects.
Not so, and it says so on the help page:
Deparsing an object is difficult, and not always possible. With
the default 'control', 'dput()' attempts to deparse in a way that
is readable, but for more complex or unusual objects, not likely
to be parsed as identical to the original. Use 'control = "all"'
for the most complete deparsing; use 'control = NULL' for the
simplest deparsing, not even including attributes.
Had you followed the advice, your example would have worked.
dump() is more accurate than dput(), and save() more so than either.
#
# Simple example:
#
# make a simple object of class "hclust"
cl = hclust(dist(matrix(nrow=4,ncol=4, c(1:16))))
# save it to a file using dput
dput(cl, "cl.dput")
# the following two commands should give identical results, but they dont
str(cl)
str(dget("cl.dput"))
# plot also fails to interpret the labels on the restore object correctly
par(mfrow=c(2,1))
plot(cl)
plot(dget("cl.dput"))
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