[R] Variable Scope

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Wed Apr 12 12:19:41 CEST 2006


Use local or codetools package as in:

http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/69694.html
http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/69695.html


On 4/12/06, James Kirkby <james at ma.hw.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if there is a way to stop R looking outside the scope of
> a function, if it can't find the variable inside the function.
>
> I seem to waste hours debugging functions only to find I've used a wrong
> variable name somewhere, but the function still works because the
> variable exists higher up the hierachy. It seems it would be easier to
> debug if the function just went splat when it couldn't find the variable.
>
> Thanks
>
> James
>
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