Saving a data frame as a binary file

Question

I would like to save a whole bunch of relatively large data frames while minimizing the space that the files take up. When opening the files, I need to be able to control wh

Answer 1

You may have a look at saveRDS and readRDS. They are functions for serialization.

x = data.frame(x1=runif(10), x2=runif(10), x3=runif(10))

saveRDS(x, file="myDataFile.rds")
x <- readRDS(file="myDataFile.rds")