[R] attach (S-style)?

[Thomas Lumley]

On Thu, 18 May 2000, Martin Maechler wrote:

> >>>>> "ChHo" == Christian Hoffmann <christian.hoffmann at wsl.ch> writes:
> 
>     ChHo> Hi everyone, Being new to the crowd of R users I am wondering
>     ChHo> what the equivalent of
> 
>     ChHo>      attach("/home/bla/hoffmann/R/.RData",2) 
> 
>     ChHo> (S style) is in R.

While the best way to do this is usually with load() or by creating a
package, you will be able to do this in R 1.1.0

The way it is implemented is basically

	attach(NULL,2)
	load("/home/bla/hoffmann/R/.RData",envir=pos.to.env(2))



   -thomas

Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle

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