R: Top Level Environment

ns-topenv {base} | R Documentation

## Top Level Environment

### Description

Finding the top level environment.

### Usage

    topenv(envir = parent.frame(),
           matchThisEnv = getOption("topLevelEnvironment"))

### Arguments

`envir` | environment.
`matchThisEnv` | return this environment, if it matches before any other criterion is satisfied. The default, the option ‘topLevelEnvironment’, is set by `sys.source`, which treats a specific environment as the top level environment. Supplying the argument as `NULL` means it will never match.

### Details

`topenv` returns the first top level environment found when searching `envir` and its parent environments. An environment is considered top level if it is the internal environment of a name space, a package environment in the search path, or `.GlobalEnv`.

### Examples

    topenv(.GlobalEnv)
    topenv(new.env())

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