[R] value of variable in ls()

[peter dalgaard]

On 19 Oct 2015, at 16:16 , James Toll <james at jtoll.com> wrote:

> 
>> On Oct 18, 2015, at 10:51 AM, Christian Hoffmann <christian at echoffmann.ch> wrote:
>> 
>> How can I do e.g. print("unknown"(ls())) and get the variable values in my current environment?
> 
> From your example, it sounds like what you want is simply this:
> 
> sapply(ls(), get)
> 

Perhaps lapply rather than sapply; I don't think the simplification step of the latter is desirable. Incidentally, both variations are effectively crossing the creek to fetch as.list(GlobalEnv).

If your environment contains large objects, you will get what you asked for, but that might well be more than you expected.

> 
> James
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