On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:12:31 +0100 (CET), you wrote: > > >It seems that R (unlike S-plus) allows assignments to elements of a > >vector objects even when the object do not exists locally (inside a > >fucntion) in cases where an object of the same name exists globally. I > >guess this is not really desired behaviour: > > Please don't post things as bugs unless you're reasonably sure they're > bugs. This is a difference between R and S-PLUS. > > It's well documented that R and S-PLUS have different scoping rules > (see 3.3.1"Lexical Scoping" in the FAQ), but I don't think that's > coming into play here. > > What we have is a reference to a global variable that modifies it. > For some reason S-PLUS doesn't allow that, but R does. Why do you > think it's a bug in R?
Some versions of S-PLUS do not allow it, and others do, so hardly a basis for claiming a bug in R. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
