Nope - you misunderstand entirely. Both of those functions have an argument named "list" and the code you quote is just the standard way of using a named argument. It could just as well read
rm(salmon = ls()) but that would be absurd. The list argument gets its name from the fact it (usually) takes a list**, no more no less. Michael **Not strictly true here as ls() doesn't return a list, but just go with it. It's a vector of names, not a list in the data structure sense. On 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
