Dear experRts,
I have the feeling that the 'name' argument to the attach function is
ignored when 'what' is a file name. Here is an example:
save(letters, file="letters.RData")
letters.env <- attach("letters.RData", name="letters")
search()
letters.env
The name on the search path is "file:letters.RData". I would expect it
to be "letters"...
Tested today with R-latest.
Is it by design? From the doc I read:
> name name to use for the attached database.
> ...
> The name given for the attached environment will be used by search and can be
> used as the argument to as.environment.
I don't see why that would be restricted when 'what' is a file name.
What do you think about it? Is it a bug or did I mis-read the doc?
Regards,
Xavier
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