box_save function

Download/upload an R workspace from/to a Box file

Use these functions to save and load workspaces or collections of objects to or from Box. Similar to save(), save.image(), and load(): these functions operate on files at Box instead of on local files.

box_save(..., dir_id = box_getwd(), file_name = ".RData", description = NULL)

box_save_image(
  dir_id = box_getwd(),
  file_name = ".RData",
  description = NULL,
  filename
)

box_load(file_id)

Arguments

• ...: Objects to be saved, quoted or unquoted; passed to save().
• dir_id: numeric or character, folder ID at Box.
• file_name: character, if supplied, an alternate filename for the local version of the Box file.
• description: character, description caption for the file.
• filename: character, deprecated : use file_name instead.
• file_id: numeric or character, file ID at Box.

Returns

• box_save(), box_save_image(): Object with S3 class boxr_file_reference.
• box_load(): From load(), a character vector of the names of objects created, invisibly.

Details

• box_save(): Save object(s) using save(), write to Box.
• box_save_image(): Save workspace image using save.image(), write to Box.
• box_load(): Read from Box, load using load().

See Also

save(), save.image(), load()