On Dec 14, 2006, at 7:42 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > myfunc <- function() b <<- 34
I would add a warning here. It is generally not a good idea for a function to have side-effects. In this case, if there is a globally defined value for b already, it will be overwritten. If this function is in a package say, and someone else uses it, or you use it after a very long time and have forgotten its internals and the fact that it's messing with the Global Environment, this might lead to some bugs that are really hard to spot. > Rainer Haris ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.
