[R] Scoping bug!?

[Thomas Lumley]

On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Thomas Lumley wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Thomas Lumley wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Marcus Eger wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello - any suggestions?!
> > > 
> > > "fun" <-  function (a1,a2,a3)  {
> > > ...
> > >  x<-rnorm(50)
> > >  a<-locfit(~x)
> > > ...
> > > }
> > > 
> > > does not work, (Error: Object "x" not found) but
> > 
> > Can we have more details: I get (current release version,
> > sun-sparc-solaris2.6)
> > 
> 
> Actually I do get the scoping bug. I had a variable called x in the global
> environment before, which is why it worked.
> 


Ok, the solution is to change the line
	frm <- eval(m, sys.parent())
to
	frm <- eval(m, sys.frame(sys.parent()))

about 10 lines down from the top of locfit().

	-thomas


-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html
Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe"
(in the "body", not the subject !)  To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch
_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._