Re: [R] Communicating from one function to another

2007-11-26 Thread hadley wickham
On 11/26/07, Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Others have already answered your direct question but consider that > what you may want without realizing it is object-oriented programming. I agree with Gabor, you're not actually looking for a global state, but a mutable object (explic

Re: [R] Communicating from one function to another

2007-11-26 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Others have already answered your direct question but consider that what you may want without realizing it is object-oriented programming. Here p is a proto object with components x and f. x is a variable and f is a method. The method f sets x to a. (Presumably in reality f would do other things

Re: [R] Communicating from one function to another

2007-11-26 Thread Greg Snow
L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare [EMAIL PROTECTED] (801) 408-8111 > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas L Jones, PhD > Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 10:11 AM > To: R-project help > Subject: [R]

Re: [R] Communicating from one function to another

2007-11-26 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11/26/2007 1:46 PM, Alberto Monteiro wrote: > Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> >> R doesn't really have global variables. <<- goes looking in parent >> environments until it finds the target variable, and makes the >> assignment there. If it never finds one, it makes the assignment in >> the "glob

Re: [R] Communicating from one function to another

2007-11-26 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > R doesn't really have global variables. <<- goes looking in parent > environments until it finds the target variable, and makes the > assignment there. If it never finds one, it makes the assignment in > the "global environment", but the name is misleading: it shoul

Re: [R] Communicating from one function to another

2007-11-26 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11/26/2007 1:25 PM, Alberto Monteiro wrote: > Thomas L Jones wrote: >> >> My question is a seemingly simple one. I have a bunch of user- >> defined functions which compute such-and-such objects. I want to be >> able to define a variable in a particular function, then make use of >> it later, p

Re: [R] Communicating from one function to another

2007-11-26 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Thomas L Jones wrote: > > My question is a seemingly simple one. I have a bunch of user- > defined functions which compute such-and-such objects. I want to be > able to define a variable in a particular function, then make use of > it later, perhaps in a different function, without necessarily >

[R] Communicating from one function to another

2007-11-26 Thread Thomas L Jones, PhD
My question is a seemingly simple one. I have a bunch of user-defined functions which compute such-and-such objects. I want to be able to define a variable in a particular function, then make use of it later, perhaps in a different function, without necessarily having to move it around in argume