How do you organize the objects you produced?
Hello! It would be nice to hear how you organize the R-objects you produced. I found almost nothing about that neither in the R-manuals nor in two books about S. For example I am trying to find out, how to load the functions that I have written and that are now saved in a .txt-file in a Windows directory. Is copying and pasting it to the RGui console really the only feasible way to do that? Constructing packages, similar to the ones included in the basic R system, is probably too complicated for a beginner like me, isn?t it? I wonder why manuals and books just explain how to write functions, but not how to keep and to reload them. I have got a similar problem with my data. I understood (mistakenly?) that one can attach a Windows directory to the search path, so that every file inside this directory is known by R, without further need to specify the path. So I tried:
attach("C:\\Temp",2)
Error in load(file, envir) : unable to open file
search()
[1] ".GlobalEnv" "file:C:\\Temp" "package:ctest" "Autoloads" [5] "package:base" Temp is a directory and includes a file named test.dat. I went on:
file <- read.table("test.dat", header = TRUE, fill = TRUE)
Error in file(file, "r") : cannot open file `test.dat' This last command only works when I use the RGui-menu to change my working directory to Temp. I feel I am using R as if cutting hair with a spoon. Do you know a nicer way to use it? Michael -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._