[R] environments

[Henrique Dallazuanna]

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On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Antje <niederlein-rstat at yahoo.de> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I try to understand the usage of environments but I'm not sure if I get it.
> I wrote a test script like this:
>
> testenv <- new.env(environment())
>
> myfun <- function(x) {
>        print(testvar)
>        testenv$testvar_2 <- 20
> }
> environment(myfun) <- testenv
>
> testenv$testvar <- 10
> myfun("hello")
> ls(envir = testenv)
>
> Now, I was wondering if there is any way to create new variables in my
> environment without this "testenv$...". I know that I can access it that way
> if I do an attach(testenv) before, but that does not help when creating new
> ones...
> Do I completely misunderstand the concept?
> I'm just looking for an elegant way to access objects of a graphical
> userinterface from each handler-function and so on. And I thought it might
> be good to pack them into an environment...
>
> Antje
>
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