Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.58.0404011116330.86044@homer08.u.washington.edu>
Date: 2004-04-01T21:17:30Z
From: Thomas Lumley
Subject: change in behavior of <<-
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.58.0403310630130.79460@homer34.u.washington.edu>
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