Save run_truth output as .rds rather than .Rdata?

[sgaichas]

Does object saved as .Rdata always return a "hidden" object name, here "result" when the user may want to rename it? This makes a copy of a huge list in memory if renamed "truth" for example.

Object saved as .rds can be named anything on reading in, only one copy?

https://csgillespie.github.io/efficientR/input-output.html#binary-file-formats

[cstawitz]

I think maybe you meant this as a note to self, but my POV is it might be helpful to break "truth" down into a number of smaller objects; I think a similar point is made in the wiki

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[sgaichas]

In the multispecies branch I just removed a big piece of the output that had suspect calcs (biomass_eaten), so it is smaller now, but yes, something to consider.