Re: [R] Problem with retrieving updated variables after attach()

2009-02-10 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
attach provides a copy of rather than aliases to the variables within a data frame. d = data.frame(x=0) attach(d) x # 0, from the attached copy of d x = 1 x # 1, from the global anvironment d$x # 0, from d x <<- 2 x # 1, from the global environment d$x # 0, from d get('x', pos=2) # 2, from the

[R] Problem with retrieving updated variables after attach()

2009-02-10 Thread David Croll
Hello, suppose I have a data frame: > mat id age 1 NA NA 2 NA NA 3 NA NA 4 NA NA 5 NA NA Then I attach the data frame: > attach(mat) I assign some new values... > id <<- sample(100,5) > age <<- rnorm(5,mean=30) Then I want to create a new data frame from the variables id and age which