[R] error in exists.....

Greg Snow
2022-12-27T18:07:18Z

You might try `hasName` instead of `exists` since `exists` is designed
for environments and `hasName` for objects (like lists).  Note that
the order of the arguments is switched between the 2 functions.
This does the same thing as Andrew Simmons' answer, but is a little bit
shorter.

On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 10:36 AM akshay kulkarni <akshay_e4 at
hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear members,
>                              I have the following code:
> >  E <- new.env()
> >  E$L <- list()
> >  i <- 1
> >   E$L[[i]]$T1A1 <- Sys.time()
> > exists("T1A1", where = E$L[[i]])
> Error in list2env(list(1, T1A1 = 1672161002.38743), NULL,
<environment>) :
>   attempt to use zero-length variable name
>
> I want the output of the exists() function to be TRUE. In any case:
>
> > E$L[[1]]$T1A1
> [1] "2022-12-27 22:40:02 IST"
>
> Please help me solve this conundrum....
>
> Thanking you,
> Yours sincerely,
> AKSHAY M KULKARNI
>
>
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