Source a remake script — source

Convenience function for sourcing a remake script (or other arbitrary code) that is present as a character vector rather than saved in a file. This just takes care of writing the character vector to a temporary file and running R's source over it. It will also source other arbitrary sets of R code that are character vectors rather than files.

source_character(str, envir = .GlobalEnv, rewrite_source = TRUE)

Arguments

str: A character vector containing code to be sourced. Each element of the vector will be treated as a separate line.
envir: An environment to source into (by default the global environment).
rewrite_source: Because calls to source within a script will still be evaluated in the global environment, so this may have side-effects when running in a non-global environment. Setting rewrite_source=TRUE (the default) attempts to rewrite top-level calls to source to source locally. This is likely error prone but the current implementation matches the way that make_script produces calls to source.

Value

The environment into which the code is sourced, invisibly. This is primarily useful when used as source_remake_script(script, envir=new.env()), as the environment created in the call is returned.

Examples

str <- c("x <- runif(10)",
         "y <- runif(10)",
         "plot(x, y)")
e <- source_character(str, envir=new.env())
ls(e) # x, y
#> [1] "x" "y"
#>