Message-ID: <D08D8172-0A16-4D74-8BAB-E57FA2CA71A4@gmail.com>
Date: 2011-10-11T17:16:11Z
From: Timothy Bates
Subject: get("a[1]") : object 'a[1]' not found
In-Reply-To: <4E94728F.2090304@gmail.com>
so? cleared out, and now it?s working: Must have been an obscure workspace conflict. Thanks for quick helpful replies
a <- 1:4
assign("a[1]", 2)
> a[1] == 2
[1] FALSE
> get("a[1]") == 2
[1] TRUE
On 11 Oct 2011, at 5:45 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 11/10/2011 12:31 PM, Timothy Bates wrote:
>> In the help for get(), the following example is given:
>> a<- 1:4
>> assign("a[1]", 2)
>> a[1] == 2 #FALSE
>> get("a[1]") == 2 #TRUE
>>
>> However, executing that last line for me gives
>>
>> Error in get("a[1]") : object 'a[1]' not found
>
> What did the second line say? It's the line that created the `a[1]` object.
>
> Duncan Murdoch