Duncan, Makes perfect sense, thank you very much.
Gene On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 21/07/2011 11:37 AM, Gene Leynes wrote: > >> It occurred to me that it would be nice to be able to save a library that >> I >> have installed an loaded into my workspace for easy sharing. I suppose it >> might not work if someone's on a different version of R, but usually since >> the library is just a collection of functions, it seems plausible that you >> could just save the functions into your workspace. >> > > You could save the functions, but they probably won't work: their > environments will be the namespace of the package they came from. > > You'd be much better off copying the source of the functions into your own > package. Most packages have licenses that allow that. > >> >> I'm sure this question is a bit naive, but I would be happy to have >> references on the best place to read up on it and advice on where to >> focus. >> >> Couldn't you iterate over the search() environments (skipping the base >> packages), save the name of the environment and the functions, and then >> unpack them when you load the new workspace. >> > > Many packages have functions that are not visible when the package is > attached to the search() list, so that would not work. > > Duncan Murdoch > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.