On 4/12/2006 5:49 AM, 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.
You don't want to do this, because very little in R is built-in to the language, many things (e.g. "+", "if", etc.) are functions stored in some environment outside your function. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ [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
