[R] Scoping

[Goran Brostrom]

On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Thomas Lumley wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Goran Brostrom wrote:
> 
> > I must admit that I don't fully appreciate the scoping rules in R.
> > For instance:
> > 
> > myfunc <-function(tt, event, x)
> >    {
> >      cat(tt, "\n")
> >      coxph(Surv(tt, event) ~ x)
> >    }
> > 
> 
> 
> This seems to be a bug in coxph, I'm already looking into it. 

Thank you for the clarification. Does this mean that it is impossible
to call coxph from within a function?
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