On 07/09/11 08:47, Khanvilkar, Shashank wrote:
> Hello All,
> Thanks in advance for all help.
>
> In my prog, I have a global list object that is used as a container for
> storing some data frames.
> Here is an example code.
> --SNIP--
> temp1<- function(X){
> statName = c("Mean", "stdDev", "NumSamples")
> statVal = c("0.5", "0.51", "5")
>
> r = data.frame(statName=statName, statVal = statVal)
> X[["temp1"]] = r
> }
>
> reportList = list()
> temp1(reportList)
> print(reportList)
> --SNIP--
>
> I was expecting that the new data frame in temp1 would get added to the list
> (reportList), but it doesn't, probably because, arguments to functions are
> passed "Call-by-value" and loose all locally made changes.
>
> Any ideas how I can do this.
Don't. This is not the R-ish way of doing things. You can do it using
"<<-"
or "assign()" but this is ***BAD***. See:
fortune("<<-")
The R-ish way to do things is have your function return the value you want
and assign that value to the object you want to up-date:
> temp1 <- function(X){
> statName <- c("Mean", "stdDev", "NumSamples")
> statVal <- c("0.5", "0.51", "5")
> X[["temp1"]] <- data.frame(statName=statName, statVal = statVal)
> X
> }
>
> reportList <- list()
> reportList <- temp1(reportList)
> print(reportList)
>
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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