gklarenberg
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4 months ago The main difference between the two:
- .Rds saves only 1 object, e.g. a dataframe, and when you load it back in again, you can give it a different name:
saveRDS(object = wq_2024, file = "wq_2024.rds")and thenwq <- readRDS(file = "wq_2024.rds") - .Rdata can save several files:
save(wq_2023, wq_2024, file = "wq_23_24.Rdata"). But then when you load in in the data,load("wq_23_24.Rdata"), you will get the objectswq_2023andwq_2024again - you can't change the name. Decision: @ChristopherMarais @palmer-cr Save as a .Rds when you are saving a single dataframe, which is what we will mostly do. Only save as .Rdata for very specific reasons. Will create a new issue to update the current dev version to read in .Rds
Keeping both types of files might be redundant. Let's pick one for the final version to save space.