Douglas Bates wrote:
> As Henrique said, the canonical way of assigning a value within an
> environment is the "assign". A more obscure, but also more effective,
> approach is evalq which quotes an expression then evaluates it in the
> given environment. For example
>
>
>> env <- new.env()
>> evalq({aa <- 1:3; bb <- LETTERS[1:9]; cc <- list(A = aa, B = bb)}, env)
>> objects(env)
>>
> [1] "aa" "bb" "cc"
>
>> env$aa
>>
> [1] 1 2 3
>
Yes, and the with() construct works similarly. You do have to be careful
to note that also the right hand side of the assignment is evaluated in
env. This can have unexpected consequences.
Notice also the possibility of lexical scoping and superassignment
"<<-". See for instance
file.show(system.file("demo/scoping.R", package="base"))
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