[R] Changing the value of variables passed to functions as arguments

[Peter Dalgaard]

Paul Baer <baer at stanford.edu> writes:

> Is it possible to write functions in such a way that, rather than 
> having to write "a=function(a)", one can just write "function(a)" and 
> have the variable passed as the argument be modified?
> 
> My real interest here is being able to invoke the editor by writing 
> "ed(filename)" rather than filename=edit(filename).

You might want to check out fix()...

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