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

I made this function:

> appendEnv = function(e1, e2) {
+     e1name = deparse(substitute(e1))
+     e2name = deparse(substitute(e2))
+     listE1 = ls(e1)
+     listE2 = ls(e2)
+     for(v in listE2) {
+         if(v %in% listE1) warning(sprintf("Variable %s is in e1, too!", v))
+         e1[[v]] = e2[[v]]
+     }
+ }

> e1 = new.env()
> e2 = new.env()
> e1$x = 1
> e1$y = 2
> e2$y = 3
> e2$z = 4
> appendEnv(e1, e2)
Warning message:
In appendEnv(e1, e2) : Variable y is in e1, too!
> as.list(e1)
$x
[1] 1

$y
[1] 3

$z
[1] 4