Text Representations of R Objects

Description

This function takes a vector of names of R objects and produces text representations of the objects in the file fileout. This file, can be sourced into another R (or S) session.

Usage

dump(list, fileout="dumpdata")

Details

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

x <- 1; y <- 1:10
dump(ls(patt='^[xyz]'), "xyz.Rdmped")