You can get around that by using this instead:
environment(f) <- as.environment(2)
provided it is done after you have loaded all your packages.
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Jeff Ryan <jeff.a.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This isn't like a local variable though, since any function above the
> baseenv() in the search path will also not be found.
>
>> f
> function(a) { rnorm(b) }
> <environment: base>
>
>> f()
> Error in f() : could not find function "rnorm"
>
> Jeff
>
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Hadley Wickham <had...@rice.edu> wrote:
>
>> > Hello All,
>> >
>> > By default, a reference of a variable in a function cause R to look
>> > for the variable in the parent environment if it is not available in
>> > the current environment (without generating any errors or warnings).
>> > I'm wondering if there is a way to revert this behaviors, such that it
>> > will not look for the parent environment and will generate an error if
>> > the variable is not available in the current environment. Is this
>> > tuning has to be done at the C level?
>>
>> Try this:
>> b <- 1
>> f <- function(a) {
>> b
>> }
>>
>> environment(f) <- baseenv()
>> f()
>>
>> Hadley
>>
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