[R] Editor/environment problem

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Mon Jun 5 21:35:01 CEST 2006


This has been fixed in 2.3.1.  See

http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/76657.html

or

http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/76953.html

Duncan Murdoch



On 6/5/2006 3:19 PM, Richard Valliant wrote:
> I have encountered an odd problem in editing a function. I found no
> mention of this in the archives but may have missed something. I'm using
> Version 2.3.0 (2006-04-24). The problem is that after creating a
> function with fix, making some typos and correcting them, my function
> loses contact with everything in the search path except (apparently)
> package:base. Here is an example: > fix(tmp)> tmpfunction (x) {       
> var(x)}> tmp(1:5)[1] 2.5> fix(tmp) # Typos (,/ at end of var(x) ) were
> intentionally introduced# line is now: var(x),/ Error in edit(name,
> file, title, editor) :         an error occurred on line 3 use a command
> like x <- edit() to recover> tmp <- edit() # Typos corrected but new
> ones introduced# Line is now var(x)**** Error in edit(name, file, title,
> editor) :         an error occurred on line 3 use a command like x <-
> edit() to recover> tmp <- edit() # Typos fixed.# List the function. Note
> the <environment: base> at end. Not there before. > tmpfunction (x) {   
>     var(x)}<environment: base>> tmp(1:5)Error in tmp(1:5) : could not
> find function "var" TIARichard 
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