On 13/11/2012 1:45 PM, Jamie Olson wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it also seems that more generally,
everything works as long as the environment is 'below' .GlobalEnv.
For example,
x = function(){
y = 4
function()y
}
yfun = x()
save(yfun,file = "yfun.RData")
load("yfun.RData")
yfun()
This works fine even when there are more inherited environments. I
imagine this is because in saving yfun, it also saves the environment
and any parent environments until some point? Is it checking to see
if the environment inherits from .GlobalEnv or something like that?
The source is here:
https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/main/serialize.c. It's not the
simplest code, but if you look, you can see that the empty, base and
global environments are handled specially (by just writing a marker, not
their contents). Package and namespace environments are handled by
writing out a string describing them. Other environments are saved by
saving their parent, their content, their hash table, and their attributes.
So yfun would be saved, along with its environment, but the parent of
that environment is globalenv(), so just the marker is saved.
Duncan Murdoch
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