Oh, indeed. Thanks, Jim and Michael for clarifying, and making me aware of my incorrect inference!
Adi On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 6:04 PM, R. Michael Weylandt < michael.weyla...@gmail.com> <michael.weyla...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > -- Aditya Bhagwat [[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.
