[R] How to retrieve results of most recent command?

[Yeh, Richard C]

That's perfect!  Thanks!

I now see that .Last.value is mentioned in the 'Introduction to R',
footnote 5.  Sorry, I hadn't read it that carefully.

(Before posting, I even did read
> help('.Last')
but thought that that function wasn't what I wanted.
I guess I wasn't using the right keywords.
> help.search('last')
returns .Last.value as the top hit.

(I also apologize for the long disclaimer at the end.  It's
automatically generated.) 


212-933-3305 / richard.c.yeh at bankofamerica.com 
-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Rowlingson [mailto:B.Rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk] 
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 11:59 AM
To: Yeh, Richard C
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] How to retrieve results of most recent command?

Yeh, Richard C wrote:
> In R, is there an automatic variable that stores the results of the
most
> recent command or commands?  (I am thinking of a behavior like
> Mathematica's % result-history substitution syntax.)
> 

Something like .Last.value:

  > x=sqrt(2)
  > .Last.value
  [1] 1.414214

which might get more usage if it was less fiddly to type.


Barry


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