When I attach data frames I often want to be able to refer to the whole
data frame rather then one of its components. For example:
attach (my.data.frame)
summary(my.data.frame)
That's fine but often the frame has a very long name so I'd prefer some
shorthand way of referring to it by its position on the search list.
This applies especially to cases where I have a nested data frame so I
might do
attach(my.data.frame$mycomponent)
summary(my.data.frame$mycomponent)
I have a recollection that there was a way of doing this with S-Plus
but I haven't been able to figure out how to do it in R (I have looked
at attach, get, sys.frame, etc. to no avail).
Is there a built-in way of doing this? Thanks.
Jeff
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