Finding the top level environment from an environment
envir and its enclosing environments.
topenv(envir = parent.frame(),
matchThisEnv = getOption("topLevelEnvironment"))environment.
return this environment, if it matches before
any other criterion is satisfied. The default, the option
topLevelEnvironment, is set by sys.source,
which treats a specific environment as the top level environment.
Supplying the argument as NULL means it will never match.
topenv returns the first top level environment
found when searching envir and its enclosing environments. An
environment is considered top level if it is the internal environment
of a namespace, a package environment in the search
path, or .GlobalEnv .
environment, notably parent.env() on
“enclosing environments”;
loadNamespace for more on namespaces.
# NOT RUN {
topenv(.GlobalEnv)
topenv(new.env()) # also global env
topenv(environment(ls))# namespace:base
topenv(environment(lm))# namespace:stats
# }
Run the code above in your browser using DataLab