Works from CLI but not from prompt

What works? Assigning a string to a function, thus replacing the
function in your search
path?

Or is that what doesn't work?

What do you expect? What are you trying to do? Using what commands?

Sarah

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Henri-Paul Indiogine

Greegings!

Any idea why this works from the command line, but not from a source
file? ?This is driving me (more) insane.

regexp <- "[Aa]ccountability"


Thanks!

--
Henri-Paul Indiogine

Sarah Goslee
http://www.functionaldiversity.org

My apologies: not the name of a function, despite ?regexp having a return value.

But the rest of my questions are still relevant.

What works? Assigning a string to a function, thus replacing the
function in your search
path?

Or is that what doesn't work?

What do you expect? What are you trying to do? Using what commands?

Sarah

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Henri-Paul Indiogine
<hindiogine at gmail.com> wrote:

Greegings!

Any idea why this works from the command line, but not from a source
file? ?This is driving me (more) insane.

regexp <- "[Aa]ccountability"


Thanks!

--
Henri-Paul Indiogine

--

Hi Sarah!

2011/9/20 Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee at gmail.com>:

What works? Assigning a string to a function, thus replacing the
function in your search
path?

Bad choice for character variable name on my part.  How about this?

pattern <- "[Aa]ccountability"

If I enter this at the CLI and then type "pattern", R returns
"[Aa]ccountability"

I I put this statement in a script then the variable "pattern" is not created.

Thanks,

Henri-Paul Indiogine

Curriculum & Instruction
Texas A&M University
TutorFind Learning Centre

Email: hindiogine at gmail.com
Skype: hindiogine
Website: http://people.cehd.tamu.edu/~sindiogine

My objective is to define a pattern for a grep() statement.

Thanks,
Henri-Paul

Henri-Paul Indiogine

Curriculum & Instruction
Texas A&M University
TutorFind Learning Centre

Email: hindiogine at gmail.com
Skype: hindiogine
Website: http://people.cehd.tamu.edu/~sindiogine

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My objective is to define a pattern for a grep() statement.

Thanks,
Henri-Paul

You are not illustrating the problem with enough detail to determine  
the source of your errors. The errors do not appear when tested in  
what appears to be the obvious manner:

 > pt1  <- "[Aa]ccountability"
 > grep(pt1, "accountability")
[1] 1
 > grep(pt1, "Accountability")
[1] 1
 > grep(pt1, "countability")
integer(0)

An old advertisement in TV in the US used to ask: "Where's the Beef?"

David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT

Greetings!

2011/9/20 David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>:

There is probably an environment/scoping problem as you stated.  I am
using ESS and org-mode.

I started a new R code block and the problem disappeared.

Thanks for your kind feedback.

Henri-Paul

Henri-Paul Indiogine

Curriculum & Instruction
Texas A&M University
TutorFind Learning Centre

Email: hindiogine at gmail.com
Skype: hindiogine
Website: http://people.cehd.tamu.edu/~sindiogine