as.environment {base} | R Documentation |
Converts a number or a character string to the corresponding environment on the search path.
as.environment(object)
object |
the object to convert. If it is already an environment, just return it. If it is a number, return the environment corresponding to that position on the search list. If it is a character string, match the string to the names on the search list. |
The corresponding environment object.
John Chambers
environment
for creation and manipulation,
search
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as.environment(1) ## the global environment
identical(globalenv(), as.environment(1)) ## is TRUE
try(as.environment("package:stats")) ## stats need not be loaded