[R] Parameters/data that live globally

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I am coming to R from Fortran and I used to use fixed size arrays in
named common. common /name1/array(100)

The contents of array can be accessed/modified if and only if this
line occurs in the function.  Very helpful if different functions need
different global data (can have name2, name3 etc. for common data
blocks).

Is there a way to do this in R?

Thanks for any help.