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Parse and Evaluate Expressions from a File

Description

Parses expressions in the given file, and then successively evaluates them in the specified environment.

Usage

sys.source(file, envir = NULL, chdir = FALSE,
           keep.source = getOption("keep.source.pkgs"))

Arguments

file

a character string naming the file to be read from

envir

an R object specifying the environment in which the expressions are to be evaluated. May also be a list or an integer. The default value NULL corresponds to evaluation in the base environment. This is probably not what you want; you should typically supply an explicit envir argument.

chdir

logical; if TRUE, the R working directory is changed to the directory containing file for evaluating.

keep.source

logical. If TRUE, functions “keep their source” including comments, see options(keep.source = *) for more details.

Details

For large files, keep.source = FALSE may save quite a bit of memory. In order for the code being evaluated to use the correct environment (for example, in global assignments), source code in packages should call topenv(), which will return the namespace, if any, the environment set up by sys.source, or the global environment if a saved image is being used.

See Also

source, and library which uses sys.source.

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