From gavin.simpson at ucl.ac.uk  Tue Oct 18 18:53:51 2011
From: gavin.simpson at ucl.ac.uk (Gavin Simpson)
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:53:51 +0100
Subject: [Rd] readRDS and saveRDS
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On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 08:37 -0500, Hadley Wickham wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is there any chance that readRDS and saveRDS might one day become
> read.rds and write.rds?  That would make them more consistent with the
> other reading and writing functions.
> 
> Hadley
> 

I would hope not. Those would then look like S3 methods for class "rds"
and cause confusion of a different sort.

It would be better to make the existing read.foo and write.foo functions
drop their "." but that is unlikely to happen given all the code that
would inevitably break.

G

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[Rd] readRDS and saveRDS
Gavin Simpson