[R] Local Variable

[Sarah Goslee]

Leaving aside the question of whether this is a good thing to do, you
can accomplish what you want by changing the pos argument, which
by default does not save the variable to the global environment.

Reading the details section of ?assign and also ?environment may help.

I'd offer an example, but your function doesn't work as-is because I don't
have any idea what the get statements are supposed to be getting.

Sarah

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:36 AM, harunpirim <harunpirim at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> I have a function:
>
> gen <- function(m){for(i in 1:m){assign(paste("x",i, sep=""),
> (7*get(paste("x",i-1,sep="")))%%13); print(get(paste("x", i, sep="")))}}
>
> my question is, I do gen(20), then the function prints out 20 values,
> however when I do objects(), I can't see x1,x2,x3,....,x20 as objects. Why?
> Are they local variables? R doesn't show local variables as objects?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Harun

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