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2007 May 16
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attach/detach asymmetry
.... Surprise number 3.
This is all documented behaviour (actually, I cant find any
documentation on the 'file:' prefixing), but am I the only person who
finds it inelegant? Or even downright ugly that the help page for
detach() gives this example code for attaching and detaching by name?
attach_and_detach <- function(db, pos=2)
{
name <- deparse(substitute(db))
attach(db, pos=pos, name=name)
print(search()[pos])
eval(substitute(detach(n), list(n=name)))
}
- and that doesn't work for attached data files because of the 'file:'
prefi...