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loading saved files with objects in same names

9 messages · Rolf Turner, William Dunlap, Martin Maechler +3 more

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Hi there,

I have several saved data files (e.g., A.RData, B.RData and C.RData). In 
each file, there are some objects with same names but different 
contents. Now, I need to compare those objects through plotting. 
However, I can't find a way to load them into a workspace. The only 
thing I can do is to rename them and then save and load again.

Is there a convenient to load those objects?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Best regards,
Jinsong
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Have you tried the 'envir' argument to load()?  E.g.,
   envA <- new.environment()
   load("A.RData", envir=envA)
   envB <- new.environment()
   load("B.RData", envir=envB)
   plot(A$object, B$object)

Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Jinsong Zhao <jszhao at yeah.net> wrote:
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On 19/08/14 14:20, William Dunlap wrote:
Did you mean

      plot(envA$object, envB$object)

???  Or am I misunderstanding something?

cheers,

Rolf
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Rolf,
   Yes, I meant to write envA$object, etc, but did not read it twice
before running off to dinner.  Thanks.
Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
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On 2014/8/18 19:20, William Dunlap wrote:
Thank you very much. It is what I want.
new.environment() is not defined in R 3.1.1. There is new.env().

Best,
Jinsong
3 days later
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An alternative that I have been advocating is using

  attach("A.RData")

etc. It does something similar as the above, but more
conveniently:
It loads the objects into a new environment  *and* attaches that
environment to your search()  path, so you can access them
directly, but attach() will never accidentally destroy existing
R objects in your global environment ( = search()[[1]] ).

Martin
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On 2014/8/22 1:02, Martin Maechler wrote:
Thanks a lot.

I try your method, and I got:

 > attach("D2.1.RData")
The following objects are masked _by_ .GlobalEnv:

     coda.jags.1, df.1, jags.1, Mean, N

In this case, how to access the masked objects?

Best,
Jinsong
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On 22/08/2014, 1:14 PM, Jinsong Zhao wrote:
Don't ever use attach(), and this won't be a problem.  Martin gave you
bad advice.

Duncan Murdoch
1 day later
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In the future, you can avoid this problem by using saveRDS and readRDS.

Hadley
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Jinsong Zhao <jszhao at yeah.net> wrote: