R: how do you merge/combine two environments?

Question

This is a simple question but the answer is apparently not so simple... Is it possible to combine environments in R?

E1 = new.env()
E2 = new.env()
E1$x = 25
E2$y         


        

Answer 1

You can do it by combining them, converting the environments to lists, and then converting back:

E3 <- as.environment(sapply(c(E1,E2),as.list))
ls(env=E3)
[1] "x" "y"
E3$x
[1] 25
E3$y
[1] 7