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
