On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, James Kirkby wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if there is a way to stop R looking outside the scope of > a function, if it can't find the variable inside the function. > > I seem to waste hours debugging functions only to find I've used a wrong > variable name somewhere, but the function still works because the > variable exists higher up the hierachy. It seems it would be easier to > debug if the function just went splat when it couldn't find the variable.
Sounds as if codetools (http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R/codetools) would help. (You don't want to stop this in general, but this will tell you if symbols in your functions will not be visible locally.) -- 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://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
