Thanks, Gabor! When a beginner (like myself) asks a question, it seems that the thing that we believe we are confused about, or want to learn, may not be the thing that would actually help us the most if it were clearly understood. Your response is what I consider ideal: Answer my question, then tell me the answer to the question that I would ask if I were smart enough.
I had dismissed the idea of env<- on grounds that I did not know what I might be overwriting. The env$x<- trick is a very nice one that I had not considered because I have so little understanding of what an environment is. I is descibed in the "environment" documentation as "a collection of named objects, and a pointer to an enclosing environment," which is fairly opaque by he standard of R documentation. R has lots of different kinds of boxes in which to collect objects. If you have a favorite introduction to how R environments work and/or best practice in programming with them, I'd be pleased to read it. Again, many thanks. and on to classes. Warmly, andrewH -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/reporting-multiple-objects-out-of-a-function-tp3873380p3881118.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.
