I don't undersand what the issues are, but he actually said
>> These files make up a package,
and all the source files on an R packages are concatenated and loaded into
a single environment. So my understanding of the answer to
>> I assume there's a good way to deal with this kind of issue.
is 'yes, build an R package'.
If you really don't want to do that, you cannot easily use source() with
such an environment as RcmdrEnv(), but you can use sys.source().
On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, John Fox wrote:
> Dear Chris,
>
> If I correctly understand what you want to do, the Rcmdr package uses the
> following functions (slightly modified from original version contributed by
> Philippe Grosjean) to solve a similar problem:
>
> RcmdrEnv <- function() {
> pos <- match("RcmdrEnv", search())
> if (is.na(pos)) { # Must create it
> RcmdrEnv <- list()
> attach(RcmdrEnv, pos = length(search()) - 1)
> rm(RcmdrEnv)
> pos <- match("RcmdrEnv", search())
> }
> return(pos.to.env(pos))
> }
>
> putRcmdr <- function(x, value)
> assign(x, value, envir = RcmdrEnv())
>
> getRcmdr <- function(x, mode="any")
> get(x, envir = RcmdrEnv(), mode = mode, inherits = FALSE)
>
> I hope this helps,
> John
>
> --------------------------------
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> McMaster University
> Hamilton, Ontario
> Canada L8S 4M4
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> --------------------------------
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Eisley
>> Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 12:29 AM
>> To: r-devel@r-project.org
>> Subject: [Rd] Scoping issues
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm trying to split up a large R file that implements a
>> tcl/tk gui into several smaller ones. The problem is that
>> the main GUI creation function defines many tclVars and
>> tkframes that need to be accessible to functions that are
>> currently defined in main function, but which I'd like to
>> move to different source files. These files make up a
>> package, so it seems that using source() is a bad idea. I
>> could try argument passing, but there are a lot of arguments
>> to pass in some cases.
>>
>> The lexical scoping is hurting me here, but I assume there's
>> a good way to deal with this kind of issue. Any help is
>> greatly appreciated.
>>
>> -Chris
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