[Rd] attach (S-style)?

[Christian Hoffmann]

Hi everyone,

Being new to the crowd of R users I am wondering what the equivalent of  

attach("/home/bla/hoffmann/R/.RData",2) 

 (S style) is in R.

What I want is a split of .RData repositories. One in a central place where I keep functions and interesting stuff important for all work I am doing, an several others which contain stuff of an dividual project only. When I start in a project directory I want to make available the central stuff. If I do it like in S+ I am getting and rightly so:

Error in attach("/home/woodstock/hoffmann/R/.RData", 2) : 
	attach only works for lists and data frames

What is the trick to use in R?  

To successfully read R-exts.texi which I hope contains steps to do it I need a way to make it readable to 
my latex command which refuses to rpoceed past line 1229 with
-----------
(R-exts.texi
LaTeX2e <1996/12/01> patch level 1
Babel <v3.6h> and hyphenation patterns for american, german, loaded.
(texinfo.tex Loading texinfo [version 1999-12-22.11]: Basics, pdf, fonts,
! Undefined control sequence.
\resetmathfonts ...nt 2 = \tensy \textfont \itfam 
                                                  = \tenit \textfont \slfam ...
l.1229 \textfonts
--------------

Thanks for your help.
--Christian

Christian W. Hoffmann
Mathematics and Statistical Computing
Landscape Modeling and Web Applications
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
phone: ++41-1-739 22 77    fax  : ++41-1-737 40 80 or  ++41-1-739 2215  e-mail: Hoffmann@WSL.CH

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Christian W. Hoffmann
Mathematics and Statistical Computing
Landscape Modeling and Web Applications
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
phone: ++41-1-739 22 77    fax  : ++41-1-737 40 80 or  ++41-1-739 2215  e-mail: Hoffmann@WSL.CH

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