With not much interesting on the data front, I have been spending some time with R. I still find the environment stuff a bit confusing, but things were much clearer after i read this blog post.
Wish i had found it earlier…
Environments in R
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ricardian ambivalence 
why u playing with environments? you are very naughty!
To keep things neat, of course! Cannot have all that stuff just floating about in the global …