On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Matthieu Stigler <matthieu.stig...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have limited understanding of Duncan's points but will follow your advice > not to do it like this. If I am nervertheless quit keen to use foo2 > externally, is the use of either assign() in foo1, or mget() in foo2 more > indicated? Or are the same kind of remarks raised against environment() also > relevant for assign() and mget()? >
Another way to approach this, which is safer, is to put it into an OO framework creating a proto object (package proto) that contains the shared data and make foo and foo2 its methods. library(proto) # see http://r-proto.googlecode.com # create proto object p <- proto() # add foo method which stores mydata in receiver object # and runs foo2 p$foo <- function(.) { .$mydata <- 1:3; .$foo2() } # add foo2 method which grabs mydata from receiver # and calculates result p$foo2 <- function(.) sum(.$mydata) # run foo method - result is 6 p$foo() -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.
