On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, analyst41 at hotmail.com wrote:
> I am coming to R from Fortran and I used to use fixed size arrays in
> named common. common /name1/array(100)
>
> The contents of array can be accessed/modified if and only if this
> line occurs in the function. Very helpful if different functions need
> different global data (can have name2, name3 etc. for common data
> blocks).
>
> Is there a way to do this in R?
Sure.
But probably better to work in R as the developers intended, rather than
trying to simulate COMMON blocks per se.
See
?list
?environment
?search
10.7 Scope in Intro to R
?get
?assign
You can collect objects in an environment and pass it to a function or put
it in the search path. Then you can get/assign objects.
Probably it is easier to work with a list. Here is a toy example
> foo <- function(object){ object$x <- object$y + 1; object}
> my.list <- list( y = 4:5 )
> my.list <- foo(my.list)
> my.list
$y
[1] 4 5
$x
[1] 5 6
>
HTH,
Chuck
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
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Charles C. Berry Dept of Family/Preventive Medicine
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