On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Richard Cotton <richiero...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If I want to assign some variables into an environment, it seems
> natural to do something like
>
> e <- new.env()
> within(e,
> {
> x <- 1:5
> y <- runif(5)
> }
> )
>
> This throws an error, since within.environment doesn't exist. I
> realise I can work around it using
>
'with' already does that:
e <- new.env()
with(e, {
x <- 1.5
y <- runif(5)
})
ls(e) # lists x and y
Also since proto objects are environments this works:
library(proto)
p <- proto(x = 1.5, y = runif(5))
p$ls() # lists x and y
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