as.environment             package:base             R Documentation

Coerce to an Environment Object

Description:

     Converts a number or a character string to the corresponding
     environment on the search path.

Usage:

     as.environment(object)

Arguments:

  object: the object to convert.  If it is already an environment, just
          return it.  If it is a number, return the environment
          corresponding to that position on the search list.  If it is
          a character string, match the string to the names on the
          search list.

Value:

     The corresponding environment object.

Author(s):

     John Chambers

See Also:

     'environment' for creation and manipulation, 'search'.

Examples:

     as.environment(1) ## the global environment
     identical(globalenv(), as.environment(1)) ## is TRUE
     try(as.environment("package:stats"))      ## stats need not be loaded

