On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, analys...@hotmail.com wrote:
I am coming to R from Fortran and I used to use fixed size arrays in
named common. common /name1/array(100)
The contents of array can be accessed/modified if and only if this
line occurs in the function. Very helpful if different functions need
different global data (can have name2, name3 etc. for common data
blocks).
Is there a way to do this in R?
Sure.
But probably better to work in R as the developers intended, rather than
trying to simulate COMMON blocks per se.
See
?list
?environment
?search
10.7 Scope in Intro to R
?get
?assign
You can collect objects in an environment and pass it to a function or put
it in the search path. Then you can get/assign objects.
Probably it is easier to work with a list. Here is a toy example
foo <- function(object){ object$x <- object$y + 1; object}
my.list <- list( y = 4:5 )
my.list <- foo(my.list)
my.list
$y
[1] 4 5
$x
[1] 5 6
HTH,
Chuck
Thanks for any help.
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