How to unlock environment in R?

Question

Playing with Binding and Environment Adjustments in R , we have this 3 functions:

1. lockEnvironment(env) locks env so you can\'t add a new symbol to

Answer 1

I think the best you can do is make a new unlocked environment. You could either copy all the fields, or make the existing one a parent of the new one. That means all the existing variables get inherited.

unlockEnvironment <- function (env) {
  return (new.env(parent=env))
}

e <- unlockEnvironment(e)