Hi, On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Timothy Bates <timothy.c.ba...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the help for get(), the following example is given: > > a <- 1:4 > assign("a[1]", 2) > a[1] == 2 #FALSE > get("a[1]") == 2 #TRUE > > However, executing that last line for me gives > > Error in get("a[1]") : object 'a[1]' not found
That's actually in the help for assign(). But anyway, help files are checked before distribution, so something is likely odd about your session. Is this in an empty session? OS, version, etc? sessionInfo() at the very least. What does ls() look like? Did you get any other warnings or errors? Sarah -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ 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.