On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Meinhard Ploner wrote: > It's possible to create a package with functions and data, > from which the use > > library(pkg-name) > > "attaches" not only the functions, but also the data? > I want avoid to use > > data(dataset, package="name") > > because this makes a global copy of the data-set ...
What do you mean by `global'? You cannot have access to R data without having it in memory and having it visible. You don't need to have it in the user workspace (.GlobalEnv), though. Suggestions: 1) See how MASS does it. Data objects are loaded into the MASS namespace on first use. 2) See ?attach and attach an R save file containing your datasets -- wasteful unless you use them all at once. It is planned that data() will be superseded by a better mechanism in R 2.0.0 (but that plan has slipped a bit already, which is why MASS does it differently). -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
