I'm still getting used to R's scoping. I've run into the following situation
value=0
thefunction <- function() print( value )
somefunction <- function() { value=99; thefunction() }
somefunction()
now, I understand that somefunction() returns 0 because thefunction() was
defined with value=0 in its parent envrionment, it dosent look at all in the
environment of somefunction. My question is can I re-scope thefunction in
the somefunction environment?? (So that somefunction() returns 99). I've
tried various uses of eval() and assign() with their keywords in the
definition of somefunction and have had no luck at all.
I do see that i could define thefunction in some external file and source it
inside somefunction, but that seems clumsy.
thanks!!
James
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