Thank you! I had actually tried that, but forgot to export that additional R script. This makes sense.
On January 29, 2019 at 16:47:20, Gábor Csárdi (csardi.ga...@gmail.com) wrote: You don't need .onLoad for this, just put the environment into the package environment. E.g. simply add pkg_data <- new.env(parent = emptyenv()) to your package code. Then you can refer to pkg_data from the functions in the package. Best, Gabor On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 9:40 PM Pascal Title <pascalti...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am developing an R package where I would like to have a set of names > defined once, and which could then be queried from within the various > functions of the package. The way I have currently set this up is to define > a new environment that contains these names. > > So, what I currently have is: > > .var <- new.env() > > .var$bio <- "bio_" > > .var$tmin <- "tmin_" > > .var$tmax <- "tmax_" > > What I would like is that this environment be created when the R package is > loaded. That way, default values are automatically in place, and if the > user would like to change the naming that they use for tmin, for example, > they would just need to do (for example): > > > .var$tmin <- ‘minTemp_' > > > And then these names can be accessed from within any of the functions, and > this is unlikely to conflict with any R objects the user is defining. > > > Where I am stuck is how/where to define this new environment such that it > is made available when the package is loaded. I tried including the > following in R/zzz.R: > > > .onLoad <- function(libname, pkgname) { > > > # define a custom environment for defining the naming of variables > > .var <- new.env() > > # default > > .var$bio <- "bio_" > > .var$tmin <- "tmin_" > > .var$tmax <- "tmax_" > > invisible() > > } > > > But if I build/install the package, the .var environment is not already > created. Any suggestions? > > > Thanks! > > -Pascal > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel