[R] Scope of variable?

[Martyn Byng]

Hi,

Not sure what you are trying to do with the "cat" command, but cat
returns an invisible NULL (as described in the doc), so

a = cat(a,v)

just sets a to NULL

Martyn

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From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
On Behalf Of Ravi Kulkarni
Sent: 16 March 2011 11:42
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: [R] Scope of variable?

I know this is a very elementary question... I could not find a solution
looking at old posts.
I am unable to access a variable outside the scope of a for loop, even
when
the variable was defined before the loop:

haar <- function() {
a = c(1.4560773, 2.3752412, 0.9798882, 3.0909252, 2.3986487, 1.8581543)

for (i in c(1:100)) {
	m = matrix(rnorm(36)+1i*rnorm(36),6)
	qrm = qr(m)
	Q = qr.Q(qrm)
	eival = eigen(Q, only.values=T)
	ph = Arg(eival$values)
	v = Mod(ph)
	a = cat(a,v)		
}
hist(a)
}

The hist command does not plot because a is null there.
How do I plot a? I tried using 

                          assign("a", a, envir = .GlobalEnv)

but that does not help either... Neither did using <<-
Any help is most welcome.
  Ravi

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