[R] A question about R environment

[Tong Wang]

Hi,
   Thanks a lot for your response,   but it is strange that when I do attach() , I got the follow error: 
  Error in attach(e) : attach only works for lists and data frames

Any suggestions on this?


tong

----- Original Message -----
From: Henrik Bengtsson <hb at stat.berkeley.edu>
Date: Monday, January 8, 2007 10:40 pm
Subject: Re: [R] A question about R environment
To: Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>
Cc: Tong Wang <wangtong at usc.edu>, R help <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>

> 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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