[R] namespaces

[Alexy Khrabrov]

Yes, I could prefix everything with taskN$, but that's boring!  Can I  
now attach and detach tasks to have one prefix-less, since they look  
like dataframes?  What does proto buy us?

To respond to Uwe here as well, I want dynamic task switching and  
*also* an ability to load and save task from their workspaces into  
their namespaces in the same R session.

Cheers,
Alexy

On Oct 2, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:

> You could have an environment for each task and place your objects for
> each task in its environment.
>
> Note that this is getting close to object oriented ideas where each
> enviroment/task
> is an object containing your R variables and methods and the proto  
> package
> can be used to facilitate that:
>
> library(proto)
> task1 <- proto(var = 0, addx = function(this, x) this$var <- this 
> $var + x)
> task1$var # 0
> task1$addx(3)
> task1$var # 3
>
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Alexy Khrabrov  
> <deliverable at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'd like to control my namespace thoroughly, separated by task.  Is  
>> there a
>> way, in R session, to introduce namespaces for tasks dynamically  
>> and switch
>> them as needed?  Or, is there a combination of load/save workspace  
>> steps
>> which can facilitate this?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Alexy
>>
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