[R] define stuff to be only usable in the same file

[Jessica Streicher]

On 10.07.2012, at 16:45, Jessica Streicher wrote:

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> On 10.07.2012, at 15:24, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
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>> On 12-07-10 9:13 AM, Jessica Streicher wrote:
>>> Hello R-Help!
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>>> I've looked around and have not found:
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>>> A simple(short) way to hide functions and variables from the global environment. What i want is for a few of them to only be accessable from the scriptfile they're in. I probably could do fun things with environments , but that seems quite a hassle.
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>> The simplest and best way to do this is to write a package.  
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> After an hour i can say it is neither simple nor short nor will it work at all at the moment
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> ERROR
> cannot change to directory 'testpack'
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> -> tried to use the build command from pretty much everywhere

Forget about that, i'm stupid and can't use the tools available...

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>> You can also use local() around the code in a script, but it gets messy when you want to export more than one thing.
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> I think local isn't quite what i imagined.
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>> Duncan Murdoch
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>>> As example: I have a file that gets me stuff from the database and creates an R object from the results, plus some functions on that object. Now i want the objectrelated stuff to be global, while the functions and variables i use for accessing the database shall be hidden.
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