Thanks to Patrick Burns, Bert Gunter, Steve Lianoglou, and Professor Brian Ripley.
2010/2/17 Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> > On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Randall Wrong wrote: > > Dear R users, >> >> I have multi-argument returns in a function and I am warned by the program >> they are deprecated. >> > > Defunct as from the next R release. > > > I have found this in the R-help archives : >> > > in 2001! > > > http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/01c/0319.html >> http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/01c/0356.html >> >> Since I am not too good at programming, the list solution seems the better >> one for me. It is also the one advocated by Kevin Murphy. >> >> So rather than writing return(x,y,z), I should write at the end of my >> function : >> > > return(list(x=x,y=y,z=z)) is the preferred replacement. > (As the help page for return() has long said.) > > > g=function() { >> >> #... >> >> result=list(x,y,z) >> return(result) >> } >> >> Is that correct ? >> >> Then shoud l use g[1] or g[[1]] ? >> > > No change is needed (I think you mean g()$x etc) as return(x,y,z) and > return(list(x=x,y=y,z=z)) are identical in their effects. > > > Thank you for you help. >> >> Randall >> > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
