[R] A question about R environment

Henrik Bengtsson hb at stat.berkeley.edu
Tue Jan 9 07:40:36 CET 2007


sourceTo() in R.utils will allow you to source() a file into an environment.

/Henrik

On 1/9/07, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> Try this:
>
> > e <- new.env()
> > e$f <- function(x)x
> > attach(e)
> > search()
>  [1] ".GlobalEnv"        "e"                 "package:stats"
>  [4] "package:graphics"  "package:grDevices" "package:utils"
>  [7] "package:datasets"  "package:methods"   "Autoloads"
> [10] "package:base"
> > f
> function(x)x
>
> On 1/8/07, Tong Wang <wangtong at usc.edu> wrote:
> > Hi  all,
> >
> > I created environment  "mytoolbox" by :   mytoolbox <- new.env(parent=baseenv())
> > Is there anyway I put it in the search path ?
> >
> > If you need some background :
> >  In a project, I often write some small functions,  and load them into my workspace directly,   so when I list the objects
> >  with ls(), it looks pretty messy.  So I am wondering if it is possible to creat an environment,  and put these tools into
> >  this environment.  For example,  I have functions    fun1(), fun2() ......    and creat an environment  mytoolbox  which
> >  contains all these functions.  And it should be somewhere in the search path:   ".GlobalEnv"        "mytoolbox"                        "package:methods"  ........
> >
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