When I attach data frames I often want to be able to refer to the whole data frame rather then one of its components. For example:
attach (my.data.frame) summary(my.data.frame) That's fine but often the frame has a very long name so I'd prefer some shorthand way of referring to it by its position on the search list. This applies especially to cases where I have a nested data frame so I might do attach(my.data.frame$mycomponent) summary(my.data.frame$mycomponent) I have a recollection that there was a way of doing this with S-Plus but I haven't been able to figure out how to do it in R (I have looked at attach, get, sys.frame, etc. to no avail). Is there a built-in way of doing this? Thanks. Jeff [[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.