Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 1/22/2009 2:41 PM, Yi Zhang wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to create an alias for the "<-" function and then later
>> overwrite it. Any idea how I can get the "<-" function object? I know
>> for other functions it's easy, something like "f <- seq" will do; how
>> really no clue for this one. Thanks!
>
> get("<-") will give it to you, and
>
> `<-` <- function(x, y) cat("x=", x, "y=", y, "\n")
>
> will change it -- and will probably be the last effective thing you do
> in that session, unless you're really careful:
>
> > x <- 1
> > x
> [1] 1
> > `<-` <- function(x, y) cat("x=", x, "y=", y, "\n")
> > x <- 3
> x= 1 y= 3
> > x
> [1] 1
> > # now what?? &%#*
now you are really motivated to use '=' instead of '<-':
x = 3
x
# 3
vQ
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