[R] Re: how to define functions in such a situation

Hu Chen chencheva at gmail.com
Wed Jun 8 03:35:15 CEST 2005


Sorry for my confusing expression.
I need create some new temp functions after the package is loaded. And
these new functions should be visible and usable.

Functions could be returned as a object, as Liaw mentioned. However I
can't find some examples in R-intro. I also want to know whether
functions returned by their "father function" could be called outside.

Thank u all.
 

On 6/7/05, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
> Hu Chen wrote:
> 
> > I got a dirty way to solve this.
> > write a temp .R source file including these new functions, then
> >
> >>source(this_temp_file)
> 
> Don't know if you really have to do it that way, but I also really don't
> understand what you are going to do...
> 
> 
> > but I don't know if there are some temp directory for R to store temp files?
> 
> See ?tempfile and ?tempdir
> 
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> > On 6/7/05, Hu Chen <chencheva at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>hi R folks,
> >>I need read a file from hardisk or www web. Then I need to define some
> >>new functions according to the contents of the read file.
> >>For  example, i need write a package name "mypackage" like this:
> >>
> >>>library(mypackage)
> >>>read(some_file_on_web) #to see its content, suppose it contains:
> >>
> >>eat.drink.sleep
> >>then 3 new functions need to be created and usable.
> >>the problem is, how could I create functions after executing
> >>">library(mypackage)" and make these new functions visible and usable
> >>immediately?
> >>
> >>Any information are appreciated. forgive me if this question is very
> >>stupid. but I really need help.
> >>Thank you all.
> >>
> >
> >
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