[R] list of all objects - just being curious

[Kaspar Pflugshaupt]

Hello all,

to obtain a list of all objects in all search paths, I've found the
following to work:

> biglist <- sapply(1:length(search()), objects)

This more obvious one, however, does not work:

> biglist <- sapply(search(), objects)
Error in pos.to.env(pos) : invalid argument

Still, search() gives

[1] ".GlobalEnv"    "package:ctest" "Autoloads"     "package:base"

and objects(".GlobalEnv"), objects("package:ctest") etc. all give their
respective vectors. So why does the sapply() construction not work here?

I've also tried a for() loop ("for (I in search()) print(objects(I))") with
the same error message. Again, "for (I in 1:length(search()))
print(objects(I))" works all right.

What am I misunderstanding?


Kaspar Pflugshaupt

(R 1.3.1 on MacOS 9.2)

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