Read the documentation for those two commands and you will see that 'list' is just a parameter to the function. It would have been called 'xyz' and worked the same. The is nothing special about 'list =' in this context; it is just naming a parameter to the function.
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Aditya Bhagwat <bhagwatadi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > I have noticed that the expression 'list =' is sometimes used to tell R to > evaluate something before executing it. > > Two examples: > > rm(list=ls()) > > a = 3 > myVarName = 'a' > save(list=myVarName, file=...) > > > I was wondering whether there is any documentation on this way of using > "list". Which is a clearly different use than what ?list talks about, as > the latter addresses the use of 'list' as a datastructure. > > Thanks for your help, > > Adi > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. ______________________________________________ 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.
