On Thu, 11 Jul 2024, David Hugh-Jones wrote:
This surprised me, even though it shouldn’t have done. (My false internal
model of the world was that oo <- options(); … options(oo) would overwrite
the entire options list with the old values.) I wonder if it would be worth
pointing out explicitly
This surprised me, even though it shouldn’t have done. (My false internal
model of the world was that oo <- options(); … options(oo) would overwrite
the entire options list with the old values.) I wonder if it would be worth
pointing out explicitly in ?options.
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Dear John,
You need to collect the return value when setting options. This will include an
explicit NULL value for an option that was previously NULL.
Best,
Greg Jefferis.
options(digits.secs = NULL)
noset2 = function() {
opts <- options(digits.secs = 3)
on.exit(options(opts))
print(op
When setting options in a function, I have always used the following:
opts <- options()
on.exit(options(opts), add = TRUE)
and assumed it "reset" options to what they were prior to running the
function. But for some options that are set to NULL, it does not seem to
reset them. Specifically, I
