R help - Jul 2010 - Vector Assignment -- Why won't it let me do it?

I have looked absolutely everywhere but I cannot figure out why my Mac will
not let me create simple data vectors.
> blah
Error: object 'blah' not found
> blah <- c(1, 2, 3)
Error in c(1, 2, 3) : 'file' must be a character string or connection

It used to work, and 6 months later I'm back on R, and now it will not work.

Please help, guys & gals!




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>
> > blah
> Error: object 'blah' not found
> > blah <- c(1, 2, 3)
> Error in c(1, 2, 3) : 'file' must be a character string or
connection
>
> It used to work, and 6 months later I'm back on R, and now it will not
> work.
>
> Most likely, you inadvertently masked the base function c with your own
function c that does
something else.  Type
   c
and see what it shows.

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On Jul 7, 2010, at 8:39 PM, Adam Berrones wrote:
>
> I have looked absolutely everywhere but I cannot figure out why my  
> Mac will
> not let me create simple data vectors.
>
>> blah
> Error: object 'blah' not found
>> blah <- c(1, 2, 3)
> Error in c(1, 2, 3) : 'file' must be a character string or
connection
Not able to reproduce on a Mac. It appears that you may have redefined  
c()

 > blah <- c(1, 2, 3)
 > blah
[1] 1 2 3

What do you get with?:

c

I get:
 > c
function (..., recursive = FALSE)  .Primitive("c")

 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.10.1 Patched (2010-02-17 r51152)
x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.10.1

I would try:

rm(c)

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David
>
> It used to work, and 6 months later I'm back on R, and now it will  
> not work.
>
> Please help, guys & gals!
>
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