dput                  package:base                  R Documentation

Write an Internal Object to a File

Description:

     Writes an ASCII text representation of an R object to a file or
     connection, or uses one to recreate the object.

Usage:

     dput(x, file = "")
     dget(file)

Arguments:

       x: an object.

    file: either a character string naming a file or a connection. `""'
          indicates output to the console.

Details:

     `dput' opens `file' and deparses the object `x' into that file. 
     The object name is not written (contrary to `dump'). If `x' is a
     function the associated environment is stripped. Hence scoping
     information can be lost.

     Using `dget', the object can be recreated (with the limitations
     mentioned above).

See Also:

     `deparse', `dump', `write'.

Examples:

     ## Write an ASCII version of mean to the file "foo"
     dput(mean, "foo")
     ## And read it back into `bar'
     bar <- dget("foo")
     unlink("foo")

