[Rd] update.default evaluating in wrong environment?

Martin C. Martin mmartin at itasoftware.com
Thu Oct 5 02:15:34 CEST 2006


Hi all,

update.default, which is the method used to update "lm" objects (among 
others), extracts the "call" element from it's first argument, updates 
it, then evaluates it in the parent.frame().  Shouldn't it be evaluated 
in environment(formula(object)), if that's non-NULL?

I ask because I call "lm" from within a function, and the data argument 
is a local variable of that function.  After that, I can't update the 
model any more, since the new lm() call (the one evaled in 
parent.frame()) can't find the data.

Best,
Martin




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