Is there a way to set the environment within a function,,  please?

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Gabor Grothendieck
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> e1 <- ...
> creates a new environment e1
>
> environment(e1)
> does nothing
>
> print(environment(e1))
> print environment e1
>
> By the way, if you are doing a lot of manipulations of environments
> you might want to look at the proto package which reframes the
> whole thing in terms of object oriented programming.
>
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Edna Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi R Gurus:
>>
>> Here is some code that I was experimenting with, please:
>>
>>> f1 <- function(x) {
>> + e1 <- new.env(parent=.GlobalEnv)
>> + environment(e1)
>> + print(environment())
>> + return(mean(x))
>> + }
>>> f1(1:15)
>> <environment: 0x02525444>
>> [1] 8
>>>
>>
>> My question:  why isn't the environment within the function set to e1, 
>> please?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Edna Bell
>>
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