how to inspect content of save() file
Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 4/22/2009 12:59 PM, Benno P?tz wrote:
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 ...
As save() writes a binary (and by default compressed) format that is not
... 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.
It is not designed to be read bit-by-bit. If you want to read only part of the data, the only easy way is to write it in multiple files. You can read the documentation for the format in the source (see src/main/serialize.c), but I don't think it would be easy to put together a function to do what you want. Duncan Murdoch
Thanks, Duncan! While this is not quite what I had hoped for I was afraid it would turn out this way. Benno