[R-pkg-devel] Assigning a variable to global environment

Fri, Dec 11, 2020 9:32 AM

Hi everyone,
This can be a very simple question, but I really have the following doubt.

CRAN Policies says that 'Packages should not modify the global environment
(user?s workspace)'. So, may I or may I not create a function that will
call internally the following code? (a simple example)

assign("name", 1, envir = .GlobalEnv)

Cheers
Tiago

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