On 10.07.2012, at 15:24, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> On 12-07-10 9:13 AM, Jessica Streicher wrote:
>> Hello R-Help!
>> 
>> I've looked around and have not found:
>> 
>> A simple(short) way to hide functions and variables from the global 
>> environment. What i want is for a few of them to only be accessable from the 
>> scriptfile they're in. I probably could do fun things with environments , 
>> but that seems quite a hassle.
> 
> The simplest and best way to do this is to write a package.  

After an hour i can say it is neither simple nor short nor will it work at all 
at the moment

 ERROR
cannot change to directory 'testpack'

-> tried to use the build command from pretty much everywhere

> You can also use local() around the code in a script, but it gets messy when 
> you want to export more than one thing.

I think local isn't quite what i imagined.

> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
>> As example: I have a file that gets me stuff from the database and creates 
>> an R object from the results, plus some functions on that object. Now i want 
>> the objectrelated stuff to be global, while the functions and variables i 
>> use for accessing the database shall be hidden.
> 
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