Thanks Erik, Schalk, Patrick, and David for you helpful advice. I
hope I'll, at some point, I'll become versed enough in R to return the
favor.
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David Young
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Monday,
son
> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 10:43 AM
> To: David Young; r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Basic function output/scope question
>
> Hello,
>
> >
> > testfunc<-function(x)
> > { y<-10
> > print(y)
> > print(x)
> > }
> >
On Sep 21, 2009, at 11:29 AM, David Young wrote:
Hello Group,
I'm trying to learn R and am having a problem getting output from a
function I'm trying to write. The problem is clearly one of scope,
but I can't find the documentation that tells me how to get around the
issue.
Here is an exampl
Hello,
>
> testfunc<-function(x)
> { y<-10
> print(y)
> print(x)
> }
>
> testfunc(4)
>
> The variables x and y are accessible during execution of the function
> "testfunc" but not afterwards.
In R, expressions return values. When you define a function, ?function says
that, "If the end of
Don't know SAS, but you can use y<<-10 to make the answer available in
the global environement. See ?'<<-'
To define the output see ?return
Schalk Heunis
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:29 PM, David Young wrote:
> Hello Group,
>
> I'm trying to learn R and am having a problem getting output from a
>
Hello Group,
I'm trying to learn R and am having a problem getting output from a
function I'm trying to write. The problem is clearly one of scope,
but I can't find the documentation that tells me how to get around the
issue.
Here is an example of my problem.
testfunc<-function(x)
{ y<-10
print
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