On 05/11/2013 12:25, Rui Barradas wrote:
Hello,
I believe the answer is no. Functions will first look in their
environment, and then in the parent frame, i.e., outside the function.
That is not correct. The scoping rule when evaluatiing a function is to
look first in the evaluation frame, then the function's environment (see
?environment). The parent frame is not part of the scope (unless part
of the environment).
You can set a function's environment to emptyenv(): then there will be
no search outside the function. As that includes no search for any of
the functions implementing R itself, only very simple functions will be
self-contained.
You can control the search by setting a function's environment. Most
likely that will achieve what you want to do (but have not told us).
Hope this helps,
Rui Barradas
Em 05-11-2013 10:42, Zhong-Yuan Zhang escreveu:
Dear experts:
In MATLAB, functions cannot see variables outside the
functions. However, in R, the functions can do that. Is there
any settings that can disable this ability of functions?
Many thanks for your kind help.
Best Regards Always.
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