Get specific object from Rdata file
I have a Rdata file containing various objects: New.Rdata |_ Object 1 (e.g. data.frame) |_ Object 2 (e.g. matrix) |_... |_ Object n Of course I can load the data frame with load('New.Rdata') , however, is there a smart way to load only one specific object out of this file and discard the others? .RData files don't have an index (the contents are serialized as one big pairlist). You could hack a way to go through the pairlist and assign only entries you like, but it's not easy since you can't do it at the R level. However, you can simply convert the .RData file into a lazy-load database which