saveList: Save or append elements to a list file.
In largeList: Serialization Interface for Large List Objects

Description Usage Arguments Details Value See Also Examples

Save or append elements to a list file.

1	saveList(object, file, append = FALSE, compress = TRUE)

`object`	A list object to save or append.
`file`	Name of file.
`append`	`TRUE/FALSE`, `TRUE` refers to truncating and saving. `FALSE` refers to appending.
`compress`	`TRUE/FALSE`, using compression or not.

Save or append a list (with or without names) to a file. Notice that, all names will be truncated to 16 characters. Rest attributes of lists will be discarded.
Files generated by this function are not readable by readRDS.
When it takes long time to process, some verbose info will be printed to console, which can be switched off by setting options(list(largeList.report.progress = FALSE)).

invisible TRUE if no error occurs.

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list_1 <- list("A" = c(1,2), "B" = "abc", list(1, 2, 3))

# save list_1 to file using compression.
saveList(object = list_1, file = "example.llo", append = FALSE, compress = TRUE)

# append list_1 to file, compress option will be extracted from the file.
saveList(object = list_1, file = "example.llo", append = TRUE)