Hello everyone,
I am trying to pass an object cleanly between two independant
environments, any ideas on how to do that?
I have something like this:
calling.function <- function(my.object) {
... ...
local(source("function_to_which_I_want_to_pass_my_object.Rda", local =
new.env(parent = .GlobalEnv))) # I can't change this part of the code
}
The calling function will be part of a package, so I don't want to use
the global environment (that's the user's space, not a space that should
be used by the packages). Writing a temp file is unclean for the same
reason (and using the user's hard-drive is actually worse than using its
space in R!). The package namespace is locked when the package is
loaded, so using the package environment is not a perfect option either.
I was wondering, is there a way to create a named environment in R? If
it was possible to do that, then the calling function could 'assign' to
the named-environment and the scripted function could 'get' from it and
the problem would be solved.
Thanks for your help,
Frederic
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