Re: [R] Pure curiosity

2010-12-12 Thread Michael Bedward
Just to follow up on Robert's comment, If you do an ls() you'll see that you've created objects V1, V2 in your global environment. A very similar question was discussed last week (I think... it's all a blur) in the context of using "<-" instead of "=" with named function arguments. Michael On

Re: [R] Pure curiosity

2010-12-12 Thread robert denham
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:09 PM, robert denham wrote: > in > test <- data.frame(V1=c(1,2,3), V2=c(4,5,6)) > > you are using arguments to the data.frame function in the tag=value format. > From the help: > >...: these arguments are of either the form ‘value’ or ‘tag = > value’. Comp

[R] Pure curiosity

2010-12-12 Thread Matt Cooper
Pure curiosity but does anyone know why '<-' and '=' generate different columning headers? > test <- data.frame(V1=c(1,2,3), V2=c(4,5,6)) > test V1 V2 1 1 4 2 2 5 3 3 6 > test <- data.frame(V1<-c(1,2,3), V2<-c(4,5,6)) > test V1c.1..2..3. V2c.4..5..6. 11