Re: [R] Understanding R's "Environment" concept

2011-07-19 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11-07-18 2:16 PM, Nipesh Bajaj wrote: Hi all, I am trying to understand the R's "environment" concept however the underlying help files look quite technical to me. Can experts here provide me some more intuitive ideas behind this concept like, why it is there, what exactly it is doing in R's a

Re: [R] Understanding R's "Environment" concept

2011-07-18 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Nipesh Bajaj wrote: > Hi all, I am trying to understand the R's "environment" concept > however the underlying help files look quite technical to me. Can > experts here provide me some more intuitive ideas behind this concept > like, why it is there, what exactly i

Re: [R] Understanding R's "Environment" concept

2011-07-18 Thread Bert Gunter
This **is** an inherently technical topic. Did you try the R Language Manual section on environments (wasn't clear from your message)? You might try posting on R-devel. Folks there may know of tutorials/books that might be useful to you. -- Bert On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Nipesh Bajaj wr