[R] Calling data within a function (was First Variable in lm)

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Christian Hoffmann <christian.hoffmann <at> wsl.ch> writes:

> ggrothendieck <at> myway.com
> -----------------------
> data(longley)
> lm( longley[,7] ~. , data = longley[,-7] )
> 
> You cannot call data() inside a function:

To call data() within a function:

f <- function() {
       data(longley, envir = environment())
       lm( longley[,7] ~. , data = longley[,-7] )
}