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

These convenience functions aim to provide analagous functionality to base::load() and base::save.image() (or base::save()), but for .RData files stored on box.com, as opposed to locally.

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

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

box_load(file_id)

Arguments

...	The objects to be saved. Quoted or unquoted. Passed to save().
dir_id	The box.com folder id where the objects will be stored as a .RData file.
file_name	The name you'd like your .Rdata file saved as. For example, "myworkspace.RData"
description	Optional. character. A string to be used as the description caption for the file (added via box_add_description()). Useful for describing the contents of a file, or describing the latest changes made to it. If NULL (the default), no description is added.
file_id	For box_load, the box.com id of the .RData or .rda file you'd like to load into your workspace.

Value

box_load returns a character vector of the names of objects created, invisibly. box_save and box_save_image are used for their side effects, and doen't return anything.

Details

box_save saves an .RData file using base::save.image() if objects is not supplied or base::save() if it is. The file is then uploaded to box.com via box_ul().

box_load downloads a file from box.com using box_dl(), and then base::load()s it into the current workspace.

See also

The base R functions which these wrap; save(), save.image() and load().