sourceAttach: Source and Attach an R source file

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Source and Attach an R source file

Description

Source (via sys.source()) and attach (attach) an R source file.

Usage

sourceAttach(file, pos=2,
             name = paste(abbreviate(gsub(fsep,"", dirname(file)),
                                     12, method="both.sides"),
                          basename(file), sep=fsep),
             keep.source = getOption("keep.source.pkgs"),
             warn.conflicts = TRUE)

Arguments

file	file name
pos	passed to attach()
name	character, with a smart default, passed to attach().
keep.source	logical, see sys.source().
warn.conflicts	logical, see attach.

Value

the return value of attach().

Author(s)

Martin Maechler, 29 Jul 2011

See Also

attach, sys.source, source

Examples

 sourceAttach(system.file("test-tools-1.R", package="Matrix", mustWork=TRUE))
 search() # shows the new "data base" at position 2
 ## look what it contains:
 ls.str(pos = 2)

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