How to see data from .RData file?

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Ewa picture Ewa · Sep 1, 2011 · Viewed 270.6k times · Source

I saw some similar qestions and I tried to work it out on my own, but I couldn't. This is my problem:

I have to load a isfar.RData file to use it in other computation (which are not important to describe here). And I would like to simply see how looks data in this isfar.RData file e.g. what numbers, columns, rows it carries.

First I load my file:

isfar<-load("C:/Users/isfar.RData")

When I try to obtain this information (I'm using Rcmdr) by ls() function or marking isfar at the beginning after loading I get in the output window: [1] "isfar" instead of the table. Why?

Thanks a lot, I appreciate all of the answers! Hope it's comprehensible what I wrote, Im not a native speaker.

Answer

Marek picture Marek · Sep 1, 2011

I think the problem is that you load isfar data.frame but you overwrite it by value returned by load.

Try either:

load("C:/Users/isfar.RData") 
head(isfar)

Or more general way

load("C:/Users/isfar.RData", ex <- new.env())
ls.str(ex)

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