Thanks to all. Presenting a large-scale, replicable example can be a
burden to the READERs which was why I was reluctant.
I am embarrassed to report that after having to restart Windows after
the system hang on something unrelated, the issue was resolved and
printing was normal. I bet it had nothing to do with the R function.
Problem caused by my Windows system memory or something. This sometimes
yes, sometimes no situation makes i thard to pinpoint the problem and
present a replicable example. I am OK now. Thanks to all.
On 2020/11/30 下午 07:21, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
By not posting a reproducible example, you're wasting everyone's time.
Duncan Murdoch
On 30/11/2020 6:06 a.m., Steven Yen wrote:
No, sorry. Line 1 below did not print for me and I had to go around and
do line 2 to print:
me.probit(obj)
v<-me.probit(obj); v
A puzzle.
On 2020/11/30 下午 07:00, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 30/11/2020 5:41 a.m., Stefan Evert wrote:
On 30 Nov 2020, at 10:41, Steven Yen <st...@ntu.edu.tw> wrote:
Thanks. I know, my point was on why I get something printed by
simply doing line 1 below and at other occasions had to do line 2.
me.probit(obj)
That means the return value of me.probit() has been marked as
invisible, so it won't auto-print. You have to use an explicit print
print(me.probit(obj))
or use your work-around to convince R that you actually meant to
print the output.
If you dig through the full code of me.probit(), you'll probably find
the function invisible() called somewhere.
I think you misread his post. "me.probit(obj)" on its own *did*
print. It was when he assigned it to a variable using "v <-
me.probit(obj)" that it didn't. Assignments are almost always
invisible in R.
The other thing that people sometimes find confusing is that
evaluating expressions that are visible are the top level doesn't make
them print when they are nested in a block of code. Usually this
happens in a function, e.g. typing a number normally makes it visible,
but
f <- function() {
1
2
}
f()
doesn't print 1, it only prints 2, and that happens because 2 is the
return value of the function.
Duncan Murdoch
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