[R] hiding/protecting utility functions in .Rprofile

[Greg Snow]

Instead of putting the functions into .Rprofile, save them as a package or use save to put them in a .Rdata file.  Then in .Rprofile you can load the package or attach the .Rdata file.

Hope this helps,

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Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111


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> project.org] On Behalf Of Michael Friendly
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> Subject: [R] hiding/protecting utility functions in .Rprofile
> 
> [Env: WinXp, R 2.9.2]
> In my .Rprofile, I define a number of utility functions I'd like to
> have
> available in my R session, but don't want them
> to be *normally* listed by ls(), or more importantly, saved if I save
> my
> session variables/functions.
> 
> How can I do this?
> 
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