On 9/11/2006 4:49 AM, Moeltner, Andreas wrote:
> Dear R-list,
>
> the following function f changes L. I thought, assignments within
> functions are only local?
That looks like a bug, still present in R-patched and R-devel. (I
haven't got the latest pre-release built yet today, but I expect it's
there, too.) Thanks for the report.
I'll send a copy of this to the bugs list, but I won't be able to
attempt to fix it.
Duncan Murdoch
>
>
> f<-function(LL)
> { for (ll in LL)
> { ll$txt<-"changed in f"
> }
> }
>
> l<-list(txt="original value")
> L<-list(l)
> L[[1]]$txt
> f(L)
> L[[1]]$txt
>
>
> gives (using R 2.3.1):
>
> ...
>> L[[1]]$txt
> [1] "original value"
>> f(L)
>> L[[1]]$txt
> [1] "changed in f"
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Andreas
>
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