On 13-06-28 01:56 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 28/06/2013 12:42 PM, Ben Bolker wrote: >> Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan <at> gmail.com> writes: >> >> > >> >> [snip] >> > >> > The other choice is to use the explicit ::, i.e. >> > >> > mc[[1]] <- quote(lmer::lFormula) >> > >> > This would be the solution I'd prefer, but you seem to have some >> > prejudice against :: . >> > >> >> I just thought that the whole point of using the machinery of >> namespaces, environments, etc., was that we shouldn't need to >> tell R explicitly what environment we were working in ... > > And usually it works, just not always when you do surgery on > expressions. The snipped version worked, for instance. > > Duncan Murdoch
Fair enough. I guess the problem is that I often look in core R functions to figure out the right idioms to use, and it wasn't obvious that this was a dangerous one ... it's fairly common and I don't see warnings in the source code about it ... Ben ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
