[R] Removing an attached object

[Pancho Mulongeni]

Thanks, that makes it clear

-----Original Message-----
From: Pascal Oettli [mailto:kridox at ymail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 1:07 PM
To: Pancho Mulongeni
Cc: R help
Subject: Re: [R] Removing an attached object

Hi,

Please read the following:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3536036/rmlist-ls-doesnt-completely-clear-the-workspace

HTH,
Pascal


Le 15/01/2013 19:55, Pancho Mulongeni a écrit :
> Dear All,
> I am a bit confused, I attached my data frame using 'attach(DATA)'
> Then I removed it using 'rm(DATA)'
> But for some reason it is still at position 2 at the search path
> search()
>   [1] ".GlobalEnv"        "DATA"              "package:foreign"
>   [4] "package:stats"     "package:graphics"  "package:grDevices"
>   [7] "package:datasets"  "package:rcom"      "package:rscproxy"
> [10] "package:utils"     "package:methods"   "RExcelEnv"
> [13] "Autoloads"         "package:base"
>
> Also when I enter the names of factors in this dataframe, such as 'AGE', I get a list of data values.
> This is weird, why does it not disappear from the search path?
> Thanks
>
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