Hello. Not at all in the way you have shown. Just to improve your code "readability", try to avoid naming your variables beginning with period (example: .hello).
In contrast with Matlab (for example) the period in R is not to have access to an object property. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/The-use-of-period-in-function-names-and-variable-names-tp3869913p3871407.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.