[R] load data for mypkg-Ex.R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Roger Koenker wrote:

> 
> On a related note.... is there a convention for cleaning up the detritus
> after running
> 
> 	example(foo)
> 
> I suppose sometimes users would like to have access to the objects
> that were created in the course of this, but perhaps more likely they
> would prefer that they were vaporized.   I'm finding this also an issue
> in writing vignettes,  but my main concern is finding a good way to
> handle this in writing .Rd files.

We tend only to clean up temporary objects, and the search path.
As Tony says, users can call example() with local=TRUE, and the checking 
code tidies up after each help file.  There are several examples of one 
help file calling example() on another and working further with the same 
objects.


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