Cleaning up the global environment after sourcing: How to remove objects of a certain type in R

Question

I read in a public-use dataset that created dozens of temporary vectors in the process of building a final dataframe. Since this dataframe will be analyzed as part of a larger p

Answer 1

I have scripts like this save the result as an RDS file and then open the result in a new session (or alternatively, after clearing everything). That is,

a <- 1
saveRDS(a, file="a.RDS")
rm(list=ls())
a <- readRDS("a.RDS")
a
## [1] 1