contents               package:Biobase               R Documentation

Function to retrieve contents of environments

Description:

     The contents method is used to retrieve the values stored in an
     environment.

Usage:

     contents(object, all.names)

Arguments:

  object: The environment (data table) that you want to get all
          contents from

all.names: a logical indicating whether to copy all values in
          'as.list.environment'

Value:

     A named list is returned, where the elements are the objects
     stored in the environment.  The names of the elements are the
     names of the objects.

     The 'all.names' argument is identical to the one used in
     'as.list.environment'.

Author(s):

     R. Gentleman

See Also:

     'as.list.environment'

Examples:

       z <- new.env()
       multiassign(letters, 1:26, envir=z)
       contents(z)

