On 7/5/06, Thomas Lumley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > > In the code below, e is an environment which we copy to f and then > > add attributes to e. Now f winds up with the same attributes. > > > > In other words it seems that the attributes are a property of the > > environment itself and not of the variable. Thus it appears we > > cannot have two environment variables that correspond to the > > original environment but with different attributes. > > No, we can't. The two variables are references to the same environment, so > they are the same. > > If you want the attributes to be copies rather than references then create > a list with the environment as an element and put the attributes on the > list.
I realize that that is how it works but what I was really wondering was should it work that way? ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
