infoRDS
RDS File Details

### Description

Reports the version number and other details of an RDS file made by saveRDS.

### Usage

    infoRDS(file)

### Arguments

file | a character string naming a file made with saveRDS.

### Details

An error is given if the file does not follow an RDS format.
Value

version | An integer version number of the RDS format.
writer_version | A string of the form x.y.z giving the version number of the R that created the file.
min_read_version | A string of the form x.y.z giving the version number of the earliest version of R that can read the file.
format | Either "ascii" or "binary", indicating whether saveRDS created the file with the ascii=FALSE argument.
native_encoding | The native character encoding (for example, "UTF-8" or "CP1252") used by the copy of R that created the RDS file.

See Also
saveRDS, loadRDS.
Examples

    infoRDS(system.file(package="splines", "Meta", "hsearch.rds"))

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