How to see data from .RData file?

Question

I saw some similar qestions and I tried to work it out on my own, but I couldn't. This is my problem:

I have to load a isfar.RData file to use it in other computation (which are not important to describe here). And I would like to simply see how looks data in this isfar.RData file e.g. what numbers, columns, rows it carries.

First I load my file:

isfar<-load("C:/Users/isfar.RData")  

When I try to obtain this information (I'm using Rcmdr) by ls() function or marking isfar at the beginning after loading I get in the output window: [1] "isfar" instead of the table. Why?

Thanks a lot, I appreciate all of the answers! Hope it's comprehensible what I wrote, Im not a native speaker.

Answer 1

I think the problem is that you load isfar data.frame but you overwrite it by value returned by load.

Try either:

load("C:/Users/isfar.RData")  head(isfar) 

Or more general way

load("C:/Users/isfar.RData", ex <- new.env()) ls.str(ex)  

Answer 2

you can try

isfar <- get(load('c:/users/isfar.Rdata'))

this will assign the variable in isfar.Rdata to isfar . After this assignment, you can use str(isfar) or ls(isfar) or head(isfar) to get a rough look of the isfar.