If I were writing a package for factoring integers I might store a vector
of known primes in an environment in my package and have my factoring
functions append to the list when they find some more primes. This works
because there is only one set of of primes (given we stick with ordinary
Hi Glenn,
It sounds like you should create an environment for your package. If you store
these objects in the global environment, they are exposed to the user and, more
importantly, user could modify or delete them. If you use an environment
specific to your package, you can be sure you are
