Sourcing an R script from github, for global session use, from within a wrapper function?

Question

I can source an R script held on github (using the \'raw\' text link) as follows:

# load package
require(RCurl)

# check 1
ls()
#character(0)

# read script line         


        

Answer 1

Use:

 eval(parse(text = script),envir=.GlobalEnv)

to stick the results into your default search space. Overwriting anything else with the same names, of course.