[R] Ghost variables

Jeff Newmiller
2019-02-25T18:39:52Z

Cease and desist with erasing objects... it fails to address loaded packages and
attached data. Rather, restart R. There is an option to do this in RStudio, but
with Rgui you have to exit and restart.

On February 25, 2019 10:31:46 AM PST, JLucke at ria.buffalo.edu
wrote:
>Fellow R-gonauts:
>
>I frequently erase/remove all the objects in my current environment so
>can
>I re-run scripts to ensure that analyses are complete, error-free, and
>accurate.
>However, sometimes when I re-rerun a script I get warning messages (see
>
>below for example)  regarding some variables (objects) when these
>variables do not exist in my current environment.
>These ghost variables had existed at one time, but were subsequently
>removed by the rm(list=ls()) command or by the broom icon in RStudio.
>
>What's happening and how do I exorcise the ghosts?
>
>
>Warning messages:
>1: Unknown or uninitialised column: 'K'.
>2: Unknown or uninitialised column: 'NDAfit'.
>3: Unknown or uninitialised column: 'NDAfit'.
>4: Unknown or uninitialised column: 'NDAfit'.
>5: Unknown or uninitialised column: 'NDAfit'.
>6: Unknown or uninitialised column: 'NDAfit'.
>7: Unknown or uninitialised column: 'NDAobs'.
>
>Joe Lucke
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