# attach  function

<https://awakeningdatascientist.wordpress.com/2015/07/16/r-of-the-day-attach/>

The attach function in R is a powerful tool in base R that allows you to, well, attach a specific database to a search path. In other words, attach allows you to reference database variables without using the “$” extractor. For example, without using the attach function (using the Iris data set from R):

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