How to use the save and load method In R Language

The save method in R writes an external representation of R objects to the specified file. These R objects can be retrieved back from the workspace using the load method.  

Syntax:

save(objects, file)

Arguments :

  • objects- The list of the objects to be saved
  • file – the file name for the R objects to be saved and read from

Example: Saving and loading R data workspace 

R




# creating data objects
obj1 <- c(1:5)         
obj2 <- FALSE                      
obj3 <- "w3wiki!!"  
 
# saving all data to the path
save(obj1, obj3, file ="tempworkspaceobj.RData")
 
load("tempworkspaceobj.RData")


 
The RData objects are stored at the specified paths shown in the below snapshot.

Output:  

 



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