[R] define stuff to be only usable in the same file
Jessica Streicher
j.streicher at micromata.de
Wed Jul 11 14:54:55 CEST 2012
Packaging ist still too complicated for my level i guess, can't get it to work properly, and it seems a lot of work.
However apparently putting a "." in front of functions will hide them, saw that in another script, don't know what its about, but it works, so who cares..
On 10.07.2012, at 17:02, Jessica Streicher wrote:
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> On 10.07.2012, at 16:45, Jessica Streicher wrote:
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>> On 10.07.2012, at 15:24, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
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>>> On 12-07-10 9:13 AM, Jessica Streicher wrote:
>>>> Hello R-Help!
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>>>> I've looked around and have not found:
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>>>> A simple(short) way to hide functions and variables from the global environment. What i want is for a few of them to only be accessable from the scriptfile they're in. I probably could do fun things with environments , but that seems quite a hassle.
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>>> The simplest and best way to do this is to write a package.
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>> After an hour i can say it is neither simple nor short nor will it work at all at the moment
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>> ERROR
>> cannot change to directory 'testpack'
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>> -> tried to use the build command from pretty much everywhere
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> Forget about that, i'm stupid and can't use the tools available...
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>>> You can also use local() around the code in a script, but it gets messy when you want to export more than one thing.
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>> I think local isn't quite what i imagined.
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>>> Duncan Murdoch
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>>>> As example: I have a file that gets me stuff from the database and creates an R object from the results, plus some functions on that object. Now i want the objectrelated stuff to be global, while the functions and variables i use for accessing the database shall be hidden.
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