UPDATE: I have added a variant of Roland's implementation to the kimisc package.
Is there a convenience function for exporting objects to the global environment, which can be called from a function to make objects available globally?
I'm looking for something like
export(obj.a, obj.b)
which would behave like
assign("obj.a", obj.a, .GlobalEnv)
assign("obj.b", obj.b, .GlobalEnv)
I am aware of <<-
and assign
. I need this to refactor oldish code which is simply a concatenation of scripts:
input("script1.R")
input("script2.R")
input("script3.R")
script2.R
uses results from script1.R
, and script3.R
potentially uses results from both 1
and 2
. This creates a heavily polluted namespace, and I wanted to change each script
pollute <- the(namespace)
useful <- result
to
(function() {
pollute <- the(namespace)
useful <- result
export(useful)
})()
as a first cheap countermeasure.
Simply write a wrapper:
myexport <- function(...) {
arg.list <- list(...)
names <- all.names(match.call())[-1]
for (i in seq_along(names)) assign(names[i],arg.list[[i]],.GlobalEnv)
}
fun <- function(a) {
ttt <- a+1
ttt2 <- a+2
myexport(ttt,ttt2)
return(a)
}
print(ttt)
#object not found error
fun(2)
#[1] 2
print(ttt)
#[1] 3
print(ttt2)
#[1] 4
Not tested thoroughly and not sure how "safe" that is.