From Martin.Schlather@uni-bayreuth.de  Thu Apr  4 13:36:01 2002
From: Martin.Schlather@uni-bayreuth.de (Martin.Schlather@uni-bayreuth.de)
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 14:36:01 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: [Rd] assign, documentation (PR#1434)
Message-ID: <200204041236.OAA29966@pubhealth.ku.dk>


Hi,

The help for `assign' says 
 
 In all the assignment operator expressions, `x' can be a name or
 an expression defining a part of an object to be replaced (e.g.,
 `z[[1]]').  The name does not need to be quoted, though it can be.

So I would expect that by
 a<-1:4
 assign("a[1]",2)   
the first component of a gets the value 2, but the object "a[1]" is 
created.
Could this be clarified in the documentation? 

Cheers,
Martin

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[Rd] assign, documentation (PR#1434)
Martin.Schlather@uni-bayreuth.de