From tlumley at u.washington.edu  Thu Apr  1 21:17:24 2004
From: tlumley at u.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Thu Apr  1 21:17:30 2004
Subject: [Rd] change in behavior of <<- 
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On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Thomas Lumley wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Vincent Carey 525-2265 wrote:
>
> >
> > There has been a change to the behavior of <<-.
> > See the error thrown at the bottom of the transcript
> > below.  I don't believe this is an intended change.
>
> It's an unintended side-effect of an intended change.  Since we don't use
> <<- very much in base R it didn't get noticed.
>

The change has been reverted.  We'll have another try at fixing the
underlying problem after 1.9.0 is out.

	-thomas


[Rd] change in behavior of <<-
Thomas Lumley