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"function" as variable name - probably better error message

Hi

The following code works as expected:


list(plot="Not any more!")

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| > plot <- "Not any more!")
| [1] "Not any more!"
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But for this I get an error:

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| > function <- "Not any more!"
| Error: unexpected assignment in "function <-"
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The error message is quite cryptic and does not help much further. Would
it be possible to provide a more useful error message in this case that
(presumably) "function" is a reserved word?

Along the same lines - is there a list of reserved words which can not
be used in R as variable names (not even as elements in a a list())?

This is not a huge problem, but it cost me a few minutes of figuring
out.

Thanks,

Rainer