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dump {base}R Documentation

Text Representations of R Objects

Usage

dump(list, fileout="dumpdata")

Value

This function takes a list names of R objects and produces text representations of the objects in the given file. At present the implementation of dump is very incomplete and it really only works for functions and simple vectors.

The function save is designed to be used for transporting R data between machines.

See Also

dput, dget, write.

Examples

dump(ls(patt='^[xyz]'), "xyz.Rdmped")
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