| as.environment | R Documentation |
A generic function coercing an R object to an
environment. A number or a character string is
converted to the corresponding environment on the search path.
as.environment(x)
x |
an R object to convert. If it is already an
environment, just return it. If it is a positive number, return the
environment corresponding to that position on the search list. If it
is If it is a list, the equivalent of If |
This is a primitive generic function: you can write methods to handle specific classes of objects, see InternalMethods.
The corresponding environment object.
John Chambers
environment for creation and manipulation,
search;
list2env.
as.environment(1) ## the global environment
identical(globalenv(), as.environment(1)) ## is TRUE
try( ## <<- stats need not be attached
as.environment("package:stats"))
ee <- as.environment(list(a = "A", b = pi, ch = letters[1:8]))
ls(ee) # names of objects in ee
utils::ls.str(ee)
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