R help - Oct 2011 - get("a[1]") : object 'a[1]' not found

In the help for get(), the following example is given:

a <- 1:4
assign("a[1]", 2)
a[1] == 2          #FALSE
get("a[1]") == 2   #TRUE

However, executing that last line for me gives

Error in get("a[1]") : object 'a[1]' not found

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Timothy Bates
<timothy.c.bates at gmail.com> wrote:
> In the help for get(), the following example is given:
>
> a <- 1:4
> assign("a[1]", 2)
> a[1] == 2 ? ? ? ? ?#FALSE
> get("a[1]") == 2 ? #TRUE
>
> However, executing that last line for me gives
>
> Error in get("a[1]") : object 'a[1]' not found
That's actually in the help for assign().

But anyway, help files are checked before distribution, so something is
likely odd about your session.

Is this in an empty session? OS, version, etc? sessionInfo() at the very least.
What does ls() look like?
Did you get any other warnings or errors?

Sarah

-- 
Sarah Goslee
http://www.functionaldiversity.org

On 11/10/2011 12:31 PM, Timothy Bates wrote:
> In the help for get(), the following example is given:
>
> a<- 1:4
> assign("a[1]", 2)
> a[1] == 2          #FALSE
> get("a[1]") == 2   #TRUE
>
> However, executing that last line for me gives
>
> Error in get("a[1]") : object 'a[1]' not found
What did the second line say?  It's the line that created the `a[1]` object.

Duncan Murdoch