Thank you, Luke, for your promptous response. [snipped away my original message; to be found on https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2007-April/045216.html]
> Sounds like lexical scoping should work for this also -- use <<- to > assign to the variable in the containing scope. > > Best, > > luke yes, in my application, this really solves the problem. Thank you. But I am not quite sure for the general situation: Recall that we have the sequence of calls myF() calls notmyG() which --with possibly more functions involved in between-- directly or indirectly calls myH(). Now, if I do not know exactly which variables are defined in the intermediate notmyG() or in some of the functions called "in between", I would have thought that using VariableInMyF <<- something within myH() bears the danger that I am overwriting a variable of name VariableInMyF in notmyG() and "in-between's" instead of in myF(). Or did I get something wrong? Thanks for your help Peter ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
