[R] recover lost global function

[MacQueen, Don]

To expand on Duncan's answer, you haven't replaced it. The following
should make that clear:

## starting in a fresh session
> c
function (..., recursive = FALSE)  .Primitive("c")
> find('c')
[1] "package:base"
> c <- 1
> find('c')
[1] ".GlobalEnv"   "package:base"
> c
[1] 1
> rm(c)
> find('c')
[1] "package:base"
> c
function (..., recursive = FALSE)  .Primitive("c")

The one provided by R, and the one you created, are not in the same
namespace.
To "recover" R's version, get rid of the one you created.Also, take a look
at the search() and conflicts() functions.

-Don


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On 4/4/12 1:52 PM, "Sam Steingold" <sds at gnu.org> wrote:

>Since R has the same namespace for functions and variables,
>> c <- 1
>kills the global function, which can be restored by
>> c <- get("c",mode="function")
>
>Is there a way to prevent R from overriding globals
>or at least warning when I do that
>or at least warning when I replace a functional value with non-functional?
>
>thanks.
>
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