I think you meant: a <- c(a, v)
and not a <- cat(a, v) On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Ravi Kulkarni <ravi.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > I know this is a very elementary question... I could not find a solution > looking at old posts. > I am unable to access a variable outside the scope of a for loop, even when > the variable was defined before the loop: > > haar <- function() { > a = c(1.4560773, 2.3752412, 0.9798882, 3.0909252, 2.3986487, 1.8581543) > > for (i in c(1:100)) { > m = matrix(rnorm(36)+1i*rnorm(36),6) > qrm = qr(m) > Q = qr.Q(qrm) > eival = eigen(Q, only.values=T) > ph = Arg(eival$values) > v = Mod(ph) > a = cat(a,v) > } > hist(a) > } > > The hist command does not plot because a is null there. > How do I plot a? I tried using > > assign("a", a, envir = .GlobalEnv) > > but that does not help either... Neither did using <<- > Any help is most welcome. > Ravi > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Scope-of-variable-tp3381485p3381485.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ 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.