Eric Lecoutre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> If I define the following list:
>
> > (l<-list("text-align"="right"))
> $"text-align"
> [1] "right"
>
> I know that I can't use l$text-align, as the parser will find a '-' operation.
> If I want (need) to use special names, as "text-align", I have to
> enclose it between "". So I can use:
>
> l$"text-align" or l[["text-align"]]
>
> If now I have the text "text-align" defined in a variable:
> p<-"text-align"
>
> I can use:
> > l[[p]]
> [1] "right"
>
> But I can't use l$p
>
> where as it is said in the help page that 'x$name' is equivalent to
> 'x[["name"]]'.
>
> Anyway I will use "[[" but I dont clearly understand this behavior.
It also says
The operators '$' and '$<-' do not evaluate their second argument.
It is translated to a string and that string is used to locate
the correct component of the first argument.
so l$p looks for l[["p"]] since the p is treated as a symbol. The fact
that there is an object called p and that it contains a special name
is immaterial (the opposite would be truly scary...).
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