[R] functions from 'base' package are not accessible

[Bert Gunter]

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-- Bert



On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 4:32 AM, Eugeny Melamud
<Eugeny.Melamud at lanit-tercom.com> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> The following code (executed in console)...
>     somevar <- data.frame(v1 = 1:5, somestring = 6:10, v3 = 11:15, v4 = 16:20);
>     somevar %>% gather(key = var, value = val, which(names(somevar) == "somestring"):length(somevar)) %>% head(2);
> throws...
>     Error in which(names(somevar) == "somestring") :
>       could not find function "which"
>
> if I change which(names(somevar) == "somestring") with 0 I'll get
>    Error in length(somevar) :
>       could not find function "length"
>
> So it looks like base package is not loaded. Still if type 'which' in console I get

Nope. data.frame() is in the base package and ran just fine.

Possibly check your usage of the "%>%" construction (which I don't use
and so can't help with).

Cheers,
Bert


>   function (x, arr.ind = FALSE, useNames = TRUE)
>   {
>     wh <- .Internal(which(x))
>     if (arr.ind && !is.null(d <- dim(x)))
>         arrayInd(wh, d, dimnames(x), useNames = useNames)
>     else wh
>   }
>   <bytecode: 0x0000000006c6e258>
>   <environment: namespace:base>
>
> base (that contains which function) package is installed. R version is 3.4.1 and system is Win8
>
> Where should I look to understand how to fix the problem?
>
> Thank you in advance!
> Eugeny
>
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