[R] variable scope

[Bert Gunter]

Perhaps I'm dense, but huh*?

-- Bert
*e.g. What are you trying to do? R does it's own garbage collection --
why do you think you need it?
And, as a general comment which may or may not be applicable, if you
create variables in a function they are local only to the function --
they disappear once the function returns. But I'm not sure this is
relevant to your query.

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Sam Steingold <sds at gnu.org> wrote:
> At the end of a for loop its variables are still present:
>
> for (i in 1:10) {
>   x <- vector(length=100000000)
> }
> ls()
>
> will print "i" and "x".
> this means that at the end of the for loop body I have to write
>
>   rm(x)
>   gc()
>
> is there a more elegant way to handle this?
>
> Thanks.
>
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