[R] How do delete all R objects out off a function?

[John Fox]

Dear Sven,

At 01:27 PM 3/5/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>how can I remove all R objects in the workspace out of a function?
>rm(list=ls()) doesn't work, and I've tried several pos arguments, but
>nothing worked.

This seems like a rather risky thing to do; however:

         > suicide <- function() rm(list=ls(.GlobalEnv) , envir=.GlobalEnv)
         > x <- y <- z <- 1
         > ls()
         [1] "suicide" "x"       "y"       "z"
         > suicide()
         > ls()
         character(0)

Is that what you had in mind? (Of course, the function need not reside in 
the global environment.)

John



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