On 11/26/07, Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Others have already answered your direct question but consider that > what you may want without realizing it is object-oriented programming.
I agree with Gabor, you're not actually looking for a global state, but a mutable object (explicitly passing non-mutable objects around in argument lists and returns is called threading state). I've used the proto package quite a bit for mutable state, and it adds an often needed programming paradigm to R. Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
