This **is** an inherently technical topic. Did you try the R Language Manual section on environments (wasn't clear from your message)?
You might try posting on R-devel. Folks there may know of tutorials/books that might be useful to you. -- Bert On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Nipesh Bajaj <bajaj141...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, I am trying to understand the R's "environment" concept > however the underlying help files look quite technical to me. Can > experts here provide me some more intuitive ideas behind this concept > like, why it is there, what exactly it is doing in R's architecture > etc.? > > I mainly need some non-technical intuitive explanation. > > Thanks, > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- "Men by nature long to get on to the ultimate truths, and will often be impatient with elementary studies or fight shy of them. If it were possible to reach the ultimate truths without the elementary studies usually prefixed to them, these would not be preparatory studies but superfluous diversions." -- Maimonides (1135-1204) Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.