[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I try to define a global variable.
You should not do that unless you really know why you want it this way.
You probably want to read the R Language Definition manual.
Anyway, read ?assign if you want to proceed doing dangerous things.
Uwe Ligges
> My example:
>
> R> a <- "old"
> R> test <- function () { a <- "new" }
> R> test()
> R> a # shoud be "new"
>
> This doesn't work. I would like to modify the variable "a" in a
> procedure. How can I do that.
>
> Thank you for helping.
>
> Sven Knüppel (Germany-Berlin)
>
>
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