[Bioc-devel] no visible binding for global variable message

[Seth Falcon]

* On 2008-04-04 at 15:23 +0200 Laurent Gautier wrote:
> 2008/4/3, Seth Falcon <seth at userprimary.net>:
> > There's probably a cleaner way to code this now.  I would consider
> >  creating the environment within your package instead of the global
> >  envirnt.  And mostly for readability, I would not use assignsign() and
> >  get() when working with environments, but instead [[ and <-.  So you
> >  could have:
> >
> >  affylmGUIenvironment <- new.env(hash=TRUE, parent=emptyenv())
> >
> >  Read the help page for details, but generally if you are using an
> >  environment as a hashtable you don't what it to inherit bindings and
> >  parent=emptyenv() is what you want.
> >
> 
> Wow.
> I missed that one "new" feature with environments:
> methods "[[" and "[[<-".
> 
> Looking quickly at the current development bioconductor code,
> it seems that "assign" is still very much used.

These features are not particularly new, but new is in the eye of the
beholder I suppose :-)

I don't mean to malign assign().  The reason I prefer [[<- is that it
reads like other assignments in R.

+ seth

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