[R] "load" for text file with functions?

Agustin Lobo alobo at ija.csic.es
Fri Sep 7 14:45:19 CEST 2001


Glups.

Yes, thanks. I did not think on it in this context, as 
it is used to execute commands. But, in fact, myfunc <- function() {} is
a command... that creates myfunc. So I should have.

Agus

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Ben Bolker wrote:

> 
>   Do you mean source() ?
> 
> On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Agustin Lobo wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm writing down the methods that I used to
> > migrate from Splus to R and expand a bit the
> > R docs for this subject. Prior to send these
> > notes to the FAQ curator I would like to make sure
> > on the following:
> >
> > Given an ascii text file with several
> > functions (i.e., myfuncs.txt), is there any equivalent to
> > load(), so that the functions become
> > usable in R? Or is it necessary
> > to install it as a library?
> >
> > (As a quick trick, I used
> > fix(newfunc) and then pasted
> > all the file myfuncs.txt in newfunc.
> > Then save(newfunc,file="myfuncs.R").
> > Note that data.restore does not
> > give good results for functions).
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Dr. Agustin Lobo
> > Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra (CSIC)
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> > 08028 Barcelona SPAIN
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> > alobo at ija.csic.es
> >
> >
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