R help - Oct 2001 - lib.fixup

Hi, all,

Can anyone tell me what this line in library() does?
  .Internal(lib.fixup(env, .GlobalEnv))

The reason I ask is that I'm writing a function that uses a bit of library()
code, and I want to know if I should include it:

  g.data.attach <- function(dir, pos=2) {
    env <- attach(NULL, pos,
paste("package",basename(dir),sep=":"))
    attr(env, "path") <- dir
    sys.source(file.path(dir, "R", basename(dir)), env, keep.source=F)
  }

Thanks!  I'll try to make this my last message for today!

			  -- David Brahm (brahm at alum.mit.edu)
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On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, David Brahm wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> Can anyone tell me what this line in library() does?
>   .Internal(lib.fixup(env, .GlobalEnv))
It mangles the environments of the objects you've created so that they
aren't saved with the rest of the workspace.

	-thomas

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

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