This isn't like a local variable though, since any function above the baseenv() in the search path will also not be found.
> f function(a) { rnorm(b) } <environment: base> > f() Error in f() : could not find function "rnorm" Jeff On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Hadley Wickham <had...@rice.edu> wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > By default, a reference of a variable in a function cause R to look > > for the variable in the parent environment if it is not available in > > the current environment (without generating any errors or warnings). > > I'm wondering if there is a way to revert this behaviors, such that it > > will not look for the parent environment and will generate an error if > > the variable is not available in the current environment. Is this > > tuning has to be done at the C level? > > Try this: > b <- 1 > f <- function(a) { > b > } > > environment(f) <- baseenv() > f() > > Hadley > > -- > Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair > Department of Statistics / Rice University > http://had.co.nz/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Jeffrey Ryan jeffrey.r...@insightalgo.com ia: insight algorithmics www.insightalgo.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel