Hi, You need to specify that a is an argument to the function:
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Gang Peng <michael.gang.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > For example: > > a <- 1 > > f <- function(b){ > return(a+b) > } > f <- function(b, a) { return(a+b) } > when we call function f(2), r will search the local environment first, if > it cannot find a, it will search global environment, and return 3. How to > avoid r searching the global environment and return an error when we call > this function? The function will now give an error if a is not specified. 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.