Message-ID: <DE5738A1-3158-4223-AA7D-2701A476B6B5@mpipsykl.mpg.de>
Date: 2009-04-22T16:59:54Z
From: Benno Pütz
Subject: how to inspect content of save() file
In-Reply-To: <dae9a2a60904220821h68b2a6fbs4fa6060ea1c5668b@mail.gmail.com>
Am 22.Apr.2009 um 17:21 schrieb Dimitri Liakhovitski:
> Why do you use save()?
> Can't you write out data frame(s) with your variables in a .txt or a
> .csv file and then read in just the variable names?
>
I could, but ...
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>> As save() writes a binary (and by default compressed) format that
>> is not
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... the files I look at now have a size of around 875MB (and this is
after compression of the binary format) - text files (even compressed)
are usually bigger.
But while this question arose from these files, it is the structure of
the files I am after.
Benno