What you want here, of course, is pass by reference. It can be done in
R (via environments), but in general, it violates the functional
programming paradigm that mostly underlies R. So you should heed the
advice given to you by Duncan and Jeff.
Cheers,
Bert
Bert Gunter
Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics
(650) 467-7374
"Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge
is certainly not wisdom."
Clifford Stoll
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Jeff Newmiller
<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> You are not following the Posting Guide. This is a plain text mailing list
> (HTML does not necessarily show us what you see). Also, you should be
> providing a reproducible example that we can run to understand what you are
> actually dealing with.
>
> The only general advice I can give you at this point is that you should avoid
> using <<- at all. Instead, return results or lists of results from the
> functions and assign them to global variables where you call the functions.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live...
> DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go...
> Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing
> Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with
> /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
>
> On June 21, 2014 9:00:53 PM PDT, Ragia Ibrahim <ragi...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>Dear group
>>I have some thing like the following code...
>>##start
>>my_list (global object)
>>
>>function 1
>>{
>>list1<-mylist
>>
>>function2(list1)
>>function3(list1)
>>function4(list1)
>>}
>>
>>function2(list1)
>>{
>>assign values via <<- to the object items
>>}
>>
>>function3(list1)
>>{
>>assign values via <<- to the object items
>>}
>># end
>>
>>
>>why after finishing each function the object variable is NULL..how can
>>i keep its values across functions.
>>
>>Regardes
>>RAE
>>
>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>
>>______________________________________________
>>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.
>
> ______________________________________________
> 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.
______________________________________________
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.
