Just as a heads-up: it is likely that unlocking the bindings in base
for pi, T, F, probably all BULTIN and SPECIAL functions, and possibly
more, will start signaling warnings in the near future. Doing this
may be useful at times for debugging but it can mess up assumptions
others make about how things in base work and so reduce code
reliability.
Best,
luke
On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Allan Engelhardt wrote:
On 16/03/11 15:04, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Allan Engelhardt<all...@cybaea.com>
wrote:
[...]
Yes, but you can still print(base::pi) and rm(pi) to get back to our flat
world, and you can't
assign("pi", 4, pos = "package:base")
Error in assign("pi", 4, pos = "package:base") :
cannot change value of locked binding for 'pi'
Just a feature of the search path. Morale: if you want base::pi, write
base::pi.
Try this:
old.pi<- pi
assignInNamespace("pi", 2.3, ns = "base")
pi
[1] 2.3
base::pi
[1] 2.3
Ah! assignInNamespace does an unlockBinding under the covers which obviously
is Evil(tm). The answer clearly is to do
assignInNamespace("unlockBinding", function (...) {warning("be safe");},
ns="base")
in your .Rprofile! Let's Keep R Safe, Folks!
Allan
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