[R] function environment

Roger D. Peng rdpeng at gmail.com
Fri Jun 2 19:03:12 CEST 2006


Try

save(A, B, file = "myfun.r")
attach("myfun.r")

Your functions will be on the search list.

-roger

Matthias Braeunig wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> how can I automatically access the functions that I loaded into a
> separate environment?
> 
>> save(A,B,file="myfun.r")
>> load("myfun.r",envir=(ENV<-new.env()))
>> ls(ENV)
> [1] "A" "B"
> 
> ?"[" turned up that I can access the functions via
> 
>> ENV$A
> function ()
> {
> }
>> ENV$A()
> NULL
> 
> Now, how can they be included in the search() path??
> attach() as for data.frames does not work...
> 
> Furthermore, if I change a functions environment to ENV, why is it not
> listed with ls(ENV)?? Instead it still lives in .GlobalEnv
> 
>> C<-function(){}
>> environment(C)<-ENV
>> ls(ENV)
> [1] "A" "B"
>> C
> function(){}
> <environment: 0x9cbbb58>
>> ENV
> <environment: 0x9cbbb58>
> 
> Thanks folks!
> I enjoy reading and learning from r-help list!
> 
> M
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