Is this a bug: assume "XYZ" is a non existing object:> XYZError: Object "XYZ" not found then:> XYZ;ls()Error: Object "XYZ" not found>ls() is not evaluated ("XYZ;XYZ" don't give two errors) I'm quiete unsure if this is intended help(";") returns "No documentation" peter Version: platform = i386-pc-mingw32 arch = x86 os = Win32 system = x86, Win32 status = major = 1 minor = 2.3 year = 2001 month = 04 day = 26 language = R Windows 95 OSR2 4.0 (build 1111) C Search Path: .GlobalEnv, package:grid, package:lattice, package:ctest, Autoloads, package:base -- P.Malewski, Limmerstr.47, 30451 Hannover, 0511-2135008 At work: http://www.MH-Hannover.de 0511 532 3194 / Fax: 0511 532 3190, P.Malewski at tu-bs.de, peter.malewski at gmx.de, malewski.peter at mh-hannover.de. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Peter Malewski wrote:> Is this a bug: > assume "XYZ" is a non existing object: > > > XYZ > Error: Object "XYZ" not found > > then: > > > XYZ;ls() > Error: Object "XYZ" not found > > > > > ls() is not evaluated ("XYZ;XYZ" don't give two errors) > > > I'm quiete unsure if this is intended help(";") returns "No documentation"It is intended: it is what all S variants do. You have pasted in a series of expressions: evaluation stops at the first error. `;' is part of the language definition: if this is covered anywhere I would expect it to be in the R Language Manual. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._