Re: [R] create a list fails

2010-10-20 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Your first example is all one statement. Within that statement you are defining elements of a list. Unfortunately you are defining some of those elements in terms of others, but they don't exist until the statement has completed. If you break the statement up into an initial list formation state

Re: [R] create a list fails

2010-10-20 Thread David Winsemius
I suspect that Dr. Jim is conflating the behavior of R w.r.t. arguments in a function call (where assignment to one argument can be "seen" by another argument) with the behavior of naming items in a list expression. -- David. On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:01 AM, jim holtman wrote: I do not see

Re: [R] create a list fails

2010-10-20 Thread jim holtman
I do not see that it has been "created" yet. You my have defined it earlier in the 'list' expression, but as an object it is not available yet. You might have to do something like uwing 'within' > x <- list() > x <- within(x, { + a = 1:10 + b = 11:20 + c = a + b + d = a * b}) > x $d [1] 11 24

[R] create a list fails

2010-10-20 Thread Maas James Dr (MED)
I can not understand why this fails > > faicoutput2 <- list(stuff21 = as.numeric(faicout$coefficients[2]), + stuff31=as.numeric(faicout$coefficients[3]), + stuff41=as.numeric(faicout$coefficients[4]), + stuff32=(stuff21-stuff31), +