I have a large ExpressionSet object ( Bioconductor ) named eset
. Can you explain why this happens? Why the object's copy is not identical to the original one after save/load?
> e2=eset
> identical(e2,eset)
[1] TRUE
> save(e2,file="test.RData")
> rm(e2)
> e2 # just to check the removal
Error: object 'e2' not found
> load("test.RData")
> identical(e2,eset)
[1] FALSE
Are there other ways to check the identity of two objects?
If needed I'm working with R 2.15.1 under Windows 7.
Environments are one of a few R object types (connections are another) for which saving and loading aren't exact inverses.
e <- new.env()
f <- e
identical(e,f)
# [1] TRUE
save("f", file="f.Rdata")
rm(f)
load("f.Rdata")
identical(e,f)
# [1] FALSE
ExpressionSet
objects contain an assayData
slot, of class AssayData
, which is described as a "container class defined as a class union of list
and environment
". Though I don't have eset installed on my computer, I'd guess that the assayData
slots of eset
and e2
make reference to different environments, causing identical(eset, e2)
to return FALSE
.
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