| environment {base} | R Documentation | 
Get, set, test for and create environments.
environment(fun = NULL) environment(fun) <- value is.environment(obj) .GlobalEnv new.env()
fun | 
a function or NULL, which is the
default. | 
value | 
|
obj | 
an arbitrary R object. | 
If fun is a function then environment(fun) returns the
environment associated with that function.  If fun is
NULL then the global environment, .GlobalEnv, is
returned.  This variable is currently defined as globalenv().
The assignment form sets the environment of the function fun to
the value given.
is.environment(obj) returns TRUE iff obj is an
environment.
new.env returns a new (empty) environment enclosed in the
parent's environment.
The envir argument of eval.
##-- all three give the same: environment() environment(environment) .GlobalEnv ls(envir=environment(approxfun(1:2,1:2, method="const"))) is.environment(.GlobalEnv)# TRUE