R help - Apr 2001 - Assign

What is the R equivalent of "frame" used in the function
"assign" in S+.
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On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Nkosinathi ZWANE wrote:
> What is the R equivalent of "frame" used in the function
"assign" in S+.
The pos= and envir= arguments perform this function.

An environment is roughly the equivalent of a frame, and you can assign
into the global environment with env=.GlobalEnv, the parent environment
with env=sys.frame(sys.parent()), the second position in the search() list
with pos=2, and so on.

	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Asst. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle

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