[R] get("a[1]") : object 'a[1]' not found

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 11/10/2011 12:31 PM, Timothy Bates wrote:
> In the help for get(), the following example is given:
>
> a<- 1:4
> assign("a[1]", 2)
> a[1] == 2          #FALSE
> get("a[1]") == 2   #TRUE
>
> However, executing that last line for me gives
>
> Error in get("a[1]") : object 'a[1]' not found

What did the second line say?  It's the line that created the `a[1]` object.

Duncan Murdoch