[Rd] Locating code that is outside of functions in R scripts

[Wolfgang Huber]

Dear Gheine,

you could also start creating your own package with these functions, and 
manage the code using R's well thought-out package management 
functionalities, with namespaces etc. At some point, this might be less 
effort than (re-)inventing tools as below.

		Best wishes
		Wolfgang




Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> This sources the indicated file into the local environment (i.e. the
> environment within src) and then only copies out the objects that are
> functions into the workspace so that you are only left with them.
> 
> src <- function(file) {
>    source(file, local = TRUE)
>    for(nm in ls(all = TRUE)) if (is.function(get(nm))) assign(nm,
> get(nm), .GlobalEnv)
> }
> 
> # usage:
> src("myfile.R")
> 
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 7:04 PM,  <gheine at mathnmaps.com> wrote:
>> Working with a number of scripts (text files with R commands) that I
>>
>> "source" into R sessions from time to time.
>>
>> The source() command is most convenient (at least for me)
>>
>> if it only loads function definitions, and doesn't otherwise change the
>>
>> interactive environment.  For example, I might have a file that looks like
>>
>>
>>
>> func1<-function() {
>>
>>  code
>>
>>  code
>>
>>  code
>>
>>  }
>>
>> # this is a comment
>>
>>
>>
>> A<-"this is code outside the function definitions";
>>
>>
>>
>> func2<-function() {
>>
>>   code
>>
>> # a comment with a spurious }
>>
>>   code
>>
>>   code
>>
>>   }
>>
>>
>>
>> I would like a quick-and-dirty script that finds the line beginnning with
>>
>> "A", since it is R code outside of any function definition.
>>
>> On the other hand it would ignore the two comment lines, and would not be
>>
>> fooled by the spurious "}" in the second comment line.
>>
>> Probably not too hard to put something like this together, but am making
>>
>> this post in case it is something that has already been done.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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Best wishes
      Wolfgang


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