4.4 Saving your work
Always save your work! Early and often! This is true both of both your scripts and your data sets. R will ask if you want to save your “workspace” when you close the session, and you should not. Save your script instead.
4.4.1 Saving an R script
To save you .r
script file in RStudio
, go to File - Save (or Save As…).
4.4.2 Saving a data frame
To save a data frame as a .rdata
data file, use the save(object,'filename')
command. To save a data frame as (i.e. write it onto) a .csv
file, use the write_csv(object, 'filename')
command and enter the name of the object and the file name.
save(myData, file = 'sampledata.rdata') # to save as an Rdata file
write_csv(myData, file = 'sampledata.csv') # to write onto a .csv file
As always, these actions will write the new file to your working directory. If you have not specified a working directory, or if you want to save elsewhere, specify the complete path name here.