"McGehee, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Shouldn't this work? > > > .a <- 5 > > exists(".a") > [1] TRUE > > getAnywhere(".a") > Error in exists(x, envir, mode, inherits) : > invalid first argument > > getAnywhere doesn't seem to like the "." prefix. Is this a bug?
Yes. It goes looking for getS3method(gen="", cl="a", TRUE) without checking whether gen (or cl) is empty. Looks like an easy fix. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel