[R] [FORGED] Use of "quote" in Windows and Linux..

[Ista Zahn]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>
> (1) Do not post in html.
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> (2) This is the R-help forum, not the Rstudio help forum.
>
> (3) The call
>
>     a1 <- quote(ID)
>
> works just fine under R (not Rstudio) on my Linux box.

Works fine on my Linux machine too, even in Rstudio.

>
> cheers,
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> Rolf Turner
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> On 25/02/16 08:03, Santosh wrote:
>>
>> Dear Rxperts..
>>
>> I noticed a puzzling behavior of  'quote' in Linux and Windows environment
>> based RStudio..
>>
>> In Linux based RStudio ,
>>
>> a1 <- quote(ID)
>>
>> The error message I get is:
>>
>> <simpleError in doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler): object
>> 'ID' not found>
>> <simpleError in is.scalar(val): object 'ID' not found>
>> <simpleError in is(obj, "ore.frame"): object 'ID' not found>
>>
>>
>> I dont get any error message when I do the same in Windows 7 based
>> RStudio..
>>
>>
>> Could you please suggest how to use quote in Linux environment..and
>> explain
>> why there is such a difference?
>>
>> Thanks much in advance!!
>
>
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