[R] nesting environments

[Antje]

Thanks a lot! I'll give it a closer look :-)

Ciao,
Antje



Gabor Grothendieck schrieb:
> Look at the example section of ?new.env
> 
> Also the proto package on CRAN defines proto objects (which are just
> environments with
> slightly different semantics) and in the Applications section of the home page
> has links to examples of using proto objects to creates GUIs with gWidgets:
> http://r-proto.googlecode.com
> 
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Antje <niederlein-rstat at yahoo.de> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I got the hint to use nesting environments (for a GUI problem), but I'm not
>> sure whether I understand what he means (and I did not really succeed with
>> reading documentation - probably I looked for the wrong keywords?).
>> That's what he wrote:
>>
>>> Another good way to control the scoping is nesting environments (e.g.
>>> through closures). That is, your object does not need to be global (in the
>>> workspace) but it can be in a parent environment. In fact, global variables
>>> won't even work when you put your code into a namespaced pacakge, because
>>> the namespace will be locked.
>> Can anybody explain it (probably with a simple example)
>> That would be great!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Antje
>>
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