cleaning up after example()
Dear R-help, I find the example() function is extremely useful in many ways. However, there's a minor inconvenience: for long examples, it leaves lots of objects in the workspace. While it's sometimes useful to have the objects around for further exploration, other times they just add to the clutter. Does anyone have a good way of cleaning up afterward? If not, would R core consider adding such a feature?
Andy, One quick fix would be to take a snapshot of your current workspace, then delete anything new afterwards. Of course, this doesn't account for overwritten variables.
snapshot = ls()
example("smooth",pack="eda",lib.loc=.Library)
...
remove(list = ls()[!ls()%in%snapshot]) # also removes `snapshot'
Regards, Sundar
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