Thanks a lot guys! On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 1:26 PM, William Dunlap <[email protected]> wrote:
> Replace the syntax List$Name with List[["Name"]] > and see if things work better. > > '[[' does not do the partial matching that '$' does. > E.g., > x <- list(AB=10, BC=20, CD=30) > x$A # returns 10 because "A" is the initial part of exactly one name in > x, "AB" > x[["A"]] # returns NULL > > However, if you have > y <- list(AB=1, AC=2, AD=3) > then y$A will return NULL because there is not a unique partial > match to "A" among the names of y. > > Bill Dunlap > Spotfire, TIBCO Software > wdunlap tibco.com > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Michael > > Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 11:00 AM > > To: r-help > > Subject: [R] Puzzling... puzzling... puzzling... > > > > Hi all, > > > > I made sure that it's "env$sRes1$nPositionsOptimizedM" that's correct... > > > > not the "env$sRes1$nPositionsOptimized"... > > > > But it seems both point to the same memory area... > > > > This is very dangerous because I have used naming conventions such as: > > > > MyLongVariableNameForA > > MyLongVariableNameForB > > MyLongVariableNameForC > > ... > > ... > > > > Then if internally they are actually the same thing then all my programs > > messed up... > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > >env=new.env() > > > > >load("MyResults.rData", env) > > > > >identical(env$sRes1$nPositionsOptimized, env$sRes1$nPositionsOptimizedM) > > > > [1] TRUE > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.

