[R] assigment operator question

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Mark Heckmann <mark.heckmann at gmx.de> wrote:
> Thanks! I'll try to stick to that advice!
> Maybe there is a better way... Here is what I want:
>
> I want to save some default settings for a package.
> The user can change these using a function similar to par().
> I do not want to use options() here as it will be quite a lot of parameters.
> I was thinking about an invisible object in the global environment and using <<- or assign() to change the settings...
>
> What other roads are there to go?
>

Another possibility is to store the global information in an
environment in your package's namespace.  See .LatticeEnv in the
lattice package's source code for an example.

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