Duncan,

Makes perfect sense, thank you very much.

Gene

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.duncan@gmail.com>wrote:

> On 21/07/2011 11:37 AM, Gene Leynes wrote:
>
>> It occurred to me that it would be nice to be able to save a library that
>> I
>> have installed an loaded into my workspace for easy sharing.  I suppose it
>> might not work if someone's on a different version of R, but usually since
>> the library is just a collection of functions, it seems plausible that you
>> could just save the functions into your workspace.
>>
>
> You could save the functions, but they probably won't work:  their
> environments will be the namespace of the package they came from.
>
> You'd be much better off copying the source of the functions into your own
> package.  Most packages have licenses that allow that.
>
>>
>> I'm sure this question is a bit naive, but I would be happy to have
>> references on the best place to read up on it and advice on where to
>> focus.
>>
>> Couldn't you iterate over the search() environments (skipping the base
>> packages), save the name of the environment and the functions, and then
>> unpack them when you load the new workspace.
>>
>
> Many packages have functions that are not visible when the package is
> attached to the search() list, so that would not work.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>

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