[R] I don't understand this

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Thomas Lumley <tlumley at u.washington.edu> writes:

> I would have said that the behavior of
>    (if (cond) names else dim)(x) <- 10
> is undefined in the S language, along with things like the order of
> evaluation of the apply functions.

Actually, following Luke's analysis, I think it is pretty squarely an
error, which we just weren't quite good enough at detecting... 

BTW: If you ever actually need to do something like that, try

eval(substitute(foo(x)<-10,list(foo=as.name(if (cond) "names" else "dim")))) 


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