[R] How to source files from a search path?

[blue sky]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Bert Gunter <gunter.berton at gene.com> wrote:
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> 2. Please use R's Help facilities (beyond RSiteSearch()) first before
> posting:
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> ?help.search
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> help.search("environment variable")

I guess you are referring to 'Sys.getenv', which is not what I am looking for.

To restate my question:

How to source a file without specifying the full path, but by deriving
the file's full path by searching in an environment variable.

Of course, 'Sys.getenv' will be useful if I want to make such a
function myself. But my question was to look for a better version of
source().

Are you clear about my question now?

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> Subject: [R] How to source files from a search path?
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> Suppose some environment variable (say MY_R_INC) has a number of
> paths. I want to source some file relative to some path in $MY_R_INC
> (just as #include in C++ does, which looks for header file in a number
> of directories). I RSiteSearch'ed, but I don't find any function that
> satisfies my need. Could somebody let me know if I overlooked
> something?
>
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