See assign, you can use '<<-' assignment:
foo <- function(var) var <<- var + 1
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:14 PM, devol <sund...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> could you please advice whether it is possible somehow to modify an
> external (from the point of some function view) variable by some
> function-internal operators. For example
>
>> var=1
>> foo<-function(var){var=var+1}
>> foo(var)
>> var
> [1] 1
>
> but the goal is to get the var equal to 2 in this specific case.
>
> Thanks!
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