?search and ?environment See also "The R Language Definition" manual for similar such questions.
-- Bert On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 6:56 AM akshay kulkarni <akshay...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Dear Members, > I have the following code typed at the console > prompt: > > y <- x*10 > > X has not been defined and the above code throws an object not found error. > That is, the global environment does not contain x. Why doesn't it look > further in the environment stack, like that of packages? There are thousands > of packages that contain the variable named x. Of course, that happens if > the above code is in a function (or does it?). > > What concept of R is at work in this dichotomy? > > THanking you, > Yours sincerely, > AKSHAY M KULKARNI > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
