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R: Change an item in a temporary list variable

changeTemp

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Change an item in a temporary list variable

Description

The function changes an item in a list variable located in SciViews:TempEnv, an environment dedicated to temporary variables (especially useful for GUIs).

Usage

changeTemp(x, item, value, replace.existing = TRUE)

Arguments

`x`	the name of the variable containing the list.
`item`	the item to change (or create) in the list.
`value`	the value to put in the list item.
`replace.existing`	do we replace an existing item?

Author(s)

Philippe Grosjean <phgrosjean@sciviews.org>

Examples

changeTemp("tst", "item1", 1:10)
## Retrieve this variable
getTemp("tst")
## Create another item in the list
changeTemp("tst", "item2", TRUE)
getTemp("tst")
## Change it
changeTemp("tst", "item2", FALSE)
getTemp("tst")
## Delete it (= assign NULL to it)
changeTemp("tst", "item2", NULL)
getTemp("tst")
## Delete the whole variable
rmTemp("tst")