sys.source               package:base               R Documentation

Parse and Evaluate Expressions from a File

Description:

     Parses expressions in the given file, and then successively
     evaluates them in the specified environment.

Usage:

     sys.source(file, envir = baseenv(), chdir = FALSE,
                keep.source = getOption("keep.source.pkgs"))

Arguments:

    file: a character string naming the file to be read from

   envir: an R object specifying the environment in which the
          expressions are to be evaluated.  May also be a list or an
          integer. The default value 'NULL' corresponds to evaluation
          in the base environment.  This is probably not what you want;
          you should typically supply an explicit 'envir' argument.

   chdir: logical; if 'TRUE', the R working directory is changed to the
          directory containing 'file' for evaluating.

keep.source: logical.  If 'TRUE', functions keep their source including
          comments, see 'options(keep.source = *)' for more details.

Details:

     For large files, 'keep.source = FALSE' may save quite a bit of
     memory. In order for the code being evaluated to use the correct
     environment (for example, in global assignments), source code in
     packages should call 'topenv()', which will return the name space,
     if any, the environment set up by 'sys.source', or the global
     environment if a saved image is being used.

See Also:

     'source', and 'library' which uses 'sys.source'.

Examples:

     ## a simple way to put some objects in an environment
     ## high on the search path
     tmp <- tempfile()
     writeLines("aaa <- pi", tmp)
     env <- attach(NULL, name = "myenv")
     sys.source(tmp, env)
     unlink(tmp)
     search()
     aaa
     detach("myenv")

