Question

I am having 2 R sessions now working on one vector in each of the session with slight difference inside, say:

session1: temp1 <- c(1:10)

session2: temp2 <- c(2:11)

I want to copy the temp1 from session1 into session2 and do a %in%, but I don’t want use print(temp1) in session1, ctrl-c it, manually modify the output and then ctrl-v it in session2.

I have seen someone using a generic function that create an output in the R session, then I ctrl-c the output directly and ctrl-v it in another R session and the object is already there. But I can’t remember the function.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You will have to pass the data from one session to another. That means you need to (efficiently) serialize the data.

The easiest, by far, will be a save() followed by a load(). If you want to be fancy, you can use sockets instead of files — see help(connections) for details