[Rd] remove(ls())

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Paul Gilbert wrote:

> It's been a long time since I tried this:
> 
> > remove(ls())
> Warning message:
> remove: variable "ls()" was not found
> 
> Is it intentional that this does not work (in 1.1.1 and R-devel)?

AFAIK only remove(list=ls()) has ever worked in R.

In R rm() and remove() are the same thing.  In S they are not.

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