Greg Snow <538280 <at> gmail.com> writes: > > The take home message that you should be learning from your struggles > is to "Not Use The 'assign' Function!" and "Do Not Use Global > Variables Like This". > > R has lists (and environments) that make working with objects that are > associated with each other much simpler and fits better with the > functional programming style of R. >
Thanks, Greg! Yours is a very smart solution to the problem I posed. By the way, what I'm trying to do is reading from a file a set of user given parameters, in two paired columns: parameter-name, value; and then, managing these parameters inside my R program. Now I do understand a bit more about lists. What about environments? Are they similar to lists, and when, and how are they created? Best regrards, -Sergio. ______________________________________________ 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.
