[R] how to keep functions while remove all other commands

[Simon Fear]

As an alternative to Petr's approach of using separate
directories, one can also write a function (which I find quite
useful in its own right) to separate ls() output by mode, e.g.

"lsd" <- function(splitby=mode, pos=1, ...) {
    lsout <- ls(pos=pos, ...)
    tapply(lsout,
      sapply(lsout, function(x) {splitby(get(x))}),
      invisible)
}

Given that, you can use expressions such as

rm(list=lsd()$numeric)
rm(list=lsd(splitby=class, all.names=T)$integer)

or to remove functions,

rm(list=lsd()$"function") # nb reserved word function needs quotes

this latter also removes `lsd` itself, so do also follow the advice
re keeping a copy of all your functions in a text file somewhere!

> -----Original Message-----
> On 24 Jan 2004 at 21:47, Yong Wang wrote:
> 
> > Dear all:
> > a quick question:
> > I am used to apply  rm(list=()) regularly to remove all old codes in
> > preventing them creeping in current analysis.however, with that
> > application, functions I wrote are also removed. please let me know
> > how to keep the thing you want while remove those you don't.
>  
 
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