Perhaps you mean to use load(...., envir = .GlobalEnv)
Currently you load up the variables in the function environment but then they are thrown away when the function ends. Michael On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Alaios <ala...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Dear all, > I have saved few variable names into local files, > I wanted to make a function that load this files and "generates" the variable > names into my working environment. I have tried to do that as a function but > my problem is > > that this function does not return the variable names > > > load_data<-function(path,Reload=FALSE){ > > if (Reload==TRUE){ > > print("Loading results") > > # FirstSet > load(file=paste(path,'first',sep="")) > first<-Set > > # SecondSet > load(file=paste(path,'second',sep="")) > second<-Set > > ..................(part omittted here) > > save( first, second,....(part omitted here)..., > file=paste(path,'Results',sep="")) > } > > return (load(file=paste(path,'Results',sep=""))) > > } > > so my idea was the following: > I call the function and it retuns the values first,second,... loaded into the > current working space. > If I want to refresh them, something has changed to the firstDataSet I set > the function's variable Reload=True and thus all the data are refreshed. > The problem is not that the return statement I ahve at the end of the > function does not return the loaded variable to the working environment but > only the status of the load command. > > Do you know how I can change that so my function returns also Loaded Variable > names to the environment? > > Alex > [[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. > > ______________________________________________ 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.