I just realized this was also possible: > assign('TRUE', FALSE) > TRUE [1] TRUE > get('TRUE') [1] FALSE
but it is probably a different story. Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 206-667-4385 Web: http://yihui.name Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Rolf Turner <rolf.tur...@xtra.co.nz> wrote: > On 29/06/13 02:54, John Fox wrote: >> >> Dear Duncan and Steve, >> >> Since Steve's example raises it, I've never understood why it's legal to >> change the built-in global "constants" in R, including T and F. That just >> seems to me to set a trap for users. Why not treat these as reserved >> symbols, like TRUE, Inf, etc.? > > > I rather enjoy being able to set > > pi <- 3 > > :-) > > cheers, > > Rolf Turner ______________________________________________ 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.