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Hi, I'm trying to access the current R global environment from within C, using R_GlobalEnv. In the example below, Rgui (R 1.7.0. Win2K) crashes when I try to run assignValueToFooInR_GlobalEnv, but not when I run assignValueToFooInRhoEnv with Rho=.GlobalEnv. Can anyone tell me why? [ My motivation is that I want use defineVar to initialise a workingEnvironment (corresponding to Value below), so that event-handler functions for a specific C library (which must have a specific prototype) can call R functions by looking up workin...