Message-ID: <x2r95k7o28.fsf@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk>
Date: 2000-10-13T15:34:07Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: Cautionary tale about c (PR#695)
In-Reply-To: J.C.Rougier@durham.ac.uk's message of "Fri, 13 Oct 2000 16:57:09 +0200 (MET DST)"
J.C.Rougier@durham.ac.uk writes:
> This situation arose in a computer practical this morning. A
> student overwrote "c" with a function. This messes up lots of
> things, but it is difficult to remove the function "c" from the
> global environment because it is used as a function in both "rm"
> and "remove". [The solution was to reassign "c" as a number, and
> then remove it.] Would it be reasonable in "rm" and "remove" to
> insist that the "c" function is got from the base? The same
> might apply to ".Internal" and "as.character", which are also
> used.
Hmm. This would seem to be doable by having line 2 of rm() as
get("c","package:base")(list, names)
You do have to be circumspect: there are calls to match(),
as.character(), and pos.to.env() in that construction, but neither
uses c().
Currently, get("c", envir=NULL) also works, but (for other reasons)
I'm on the warpath against using NULL for the base environment.
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