[Rd] multiple names to assign

2008-07-13 Thread Patrick Burns
'assign' does not give a warning if 'x' has length greater than 1 -- it just uses the first element: assign(c('a1', 'a2'), 1:2) One way of thinking about this is that people using 'assign' get what they deserve. The other is that it is used seldom enough that adding a warning isn't going to slo

Re: [Rd] multiple names to assign

2008-07-13 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
Biobase has multiassign. Kasper On Jul 13, 2008, at 2:39 AM, Patrick Burns wrote: 'assign' does not give a warning if 'x' has length greater than 1 -- it just uses the first element: assign(c('a1', 'a2'), 1:2) One way of thinking about this is that people using 'assign' get what they deserve