spinuvit.l...@gmail.com (Vitalie S.) writes: > > I would expect the following to behave identically: > >> tv <- c(a="dsf", b="sss") >> tl <- list(232) > >> `$<-`(tl, tv[[1]], "sdfdsfdsfsd") > Error: invalid subscript type 'language' > >> tl$`tv[[1]]` <- "sdfdsfdsfsd" >> tl > [[1]] > [1] 232 > > $`tv[[1]]` > [1] "sdfdsfdsfsd" > > So what is relay going on? In one case the name is expected, in another case > any > "language" object would work?
> >> If you insist, you can do things like >> >> eval(bquote(`$<-`(x, .(as.name(tv[[1]])), 4343))) >> >> or similar constructs using substitute(). >> >> However, the whole situation suggests that you are really looking for >> methods for "[[<-". Yap, I see now, `tv[[1]]` is a name. So no contradiction. To conclude, only the symbol is allowed as index and I can not do absolutely anything to make my custom "$" "smarter":(. Thanks everyone for helping me filter some noise in my head. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
