Do you mean: rm(list = ls(all = TRUE)) ? ... or something else? Bert Gunter
"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 2:21 PM J C Nash <profjcn...@gmail.com> wrote: > In a separate thread Jeff Newmiller wrote: > > rm(list=ls()) is a bad practice... especially when posting examples. It > doesn't clean out everything and it removes objects created by the user. > > This query is to ask > > 1) Why is it bad practice to clear the workspace when presenting an > example? > I'm assuming here that people who will try R-help examples will not run > them in the > middle of something else, which I agree would be unfortunates. However, > one of the > not very nice aspects of R is that it is VERY easy to have stuff hanging > around (including > overloaded functions and operators) that get you into trouble, and indeed > make it harder > to reproduce those important "minimal reproducible examples". This > includes the .RData > contents. (For information, I can understand the attraction, but I seem to > have been > burned much more often than I've benefited from a pre-warmed oven.) > > 2) Is there a good command that really does leave a blank workspace? For > testing > purposes, it would be useful to have an assured blank canvas. > > This post is definitely not to start an argument, but to try to find ways > to reduce > the possibilities for unanticipated outcomes in examples. > > Cheers, JN > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
