dput {base}

R Documentation

Write an Internal Object to a File

Description

Writes an ASCII text representation of an R object to a file or connection, or uses one to recreate the object.

Usage

dput(x, file = "")
dget(file)

Arguments

x	an object.
file	either a character string naming a file or a connection. "" indicates output to the console.

Details

dput opens file and deparses the object x into that file. The object name is not written (contrary to dump). If x is a function the associated environment is stripped. Hence scoping information can be lost.

Using dget, the object can be recreated (with the limitations mentioned above).

See Also

deparse, dump, write.

Examples

## Write an ASCII version of mean to the file "foo"
dput(mean, "foo")
## And read it back into `bar'
bar <- dget("foo")
unlink("foo")

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