On 4/16/2009 9:52 AM, Benjamin Tyner wrote:> Hi
>
> Using R 2.8.1. I have list object called "AuxData". Inside a
browser(),
>
> get("AuxData")
>
> succeeds, while
>
> getAnywhere("AuxData")
>
> fails with the error "no object named ??AuxData?? was found".
I'm
> curious to know if this could be a bug. If yes, I'll try to come up
> with a reproducible example.
It's not a bug. getAnywhere doesn't really mean "anywhere",
it means
"visible on the search path, registered as an S3 method or in a name
space but not exported." On the other hand, the browser will show you
the local evaluation frame. So I'd expect the browser to be able to see
x below, but getAnywhere wouldn't find it, because it's not in one of
the places listed above.
f <- function(x) {
browser()
getAnywhere("x")
}
f(1)