On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Barry Rowlingson<b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Mark Knecht<markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> You could wrap it in a function of your own making, right? >> >> AddNewDev = function() {dev.new();AddNewDev=dev.cur()} >> >> histPlot=AddNewDev() >> >> Seems to work. > > You leaRn fast :) Probably better style is: > > newDev = function(){dev.new();return(dev.cur())} > > - which returns the value explicitly with return().
R isn't C! ;) I'd claim idiomatic R only uses return for special cases (i.e. when you can terminate the function early) Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.