On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Wacek Kusnierczyk <waclaw.marcin.kusnierc...@idi.ntnu.no> wrote: > 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 >
Thanks. That certainly is an option. But I want to preserve `<-`'s functionality because I'm writing a package and I don't want to limit the package user's freedom to use `<-`... -- Yi ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.