change in behavior of <<-
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Thomas Lumley wrote:
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Vincent Carey 525-2265 wrote:
There has been a change to the behavior of <<-. See the error thrown at the bottom of the transcript below. I don't believe this is an intended change.
It's an unintended side-effect of an intended change. Since we don't use <<- very much in base R it didn't get noticed.
The change has been reverted. We'll have another try at fixing the underlying problem after 1.9.0 is out. -thomas