"tom soyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks Marc and Gregor for the detailed explanation. You are right, the > masking is potentially dangerous. Since R is object oriented, I am surprised > that this is an issue. Does this mean that encapsulation does not exist in > R?
R does have namespaces, but you can't have your cake and eat it too: If your attached data frame contains a variable "airquality", then you can't both access that one and the same-named example dataset as just "airquality" (datasets::airquality still works). -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
