[R] Environment problems

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Your R-patched is nearly a month old.  For 2.3.1 beta:

     o   edit() would default the environment of a function to .BaseEnv,
         instead of to .GlobalEnv.

so this is already changed in the current test versions of the next 
release of R.

On Tue, 23 May 2006, Hans Gardfjell wrote:

> Dear list readers,
>
> Can someone of you explain this behavior. Here's a toy example:
>
> Start by constructing a function tmp
>
> >fix(tmp)
>
> In the default editor enter this one-liner:
> hist(rnorm(10))
>
> close the editor and run environment on the function.
>
> > environment(tmp)
> <environment: R_GlobalEnv>
>
> Open the editor and remove the last parenthesis, this will make the
> editor choke.
>
> > fix(tmp)
> Error in edit(name, file, title, editor) :
>        an error occurred on line 4
> use a command like
> x <- edit()
> to recover
>
> Put the paranthesis back:
>
> > edit()->tmp
>
> > environment(tmp)
> <environment: base>
> > tmp()
> Error in tmp() : could not find function "hist"
>
> And as you can see, the function doesn't work anymore...
> Yes, I know I can manually change the environment back to .GlobalEnv,
> but is this the way it supposed to work?
>
> This example is done in
>
> > R.Version()$version.string
> [1] "Version 2.3.0 Patched (2006-04-25 r37924)"
>
> on WindowsXP
>
> Cheers, Hans
>
>

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