Russ Abbott <russ.abb...@gmail.com> [Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 06:46:04AM CET]: > I'm afraid I disagree.
I don't think there is much disagreement. You have been shown that there is a functional way to rephrase your example. I suppose you don't disagree that the structure() expression has no side effects. And hardly anyone else here disagrees that "names() <-" has. I think most of us are aware that it's possible to use R in a non-functional way, and a couple of us are aware of the downsides. -- Johannes Hüsing There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture mailto:johan...@huesing.name from such a trifling investment of fact. http://derwisch.wikidot.com (Mark Twain, "Life on the Mississippi") ______________________________________________ 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.