From J.C.Rougier@durham.ac.uk  Fri Oct 13 15:57:09 2000
From: J.C.Rougier@durham.ac.uk (J.C.Rougier@durham.ac.uk)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 16:57:09 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: [Rd] Cautionary tale about c (PR#695)
Message-ID: <200010131457.QAA18499@pubhealth.ku.dk>

This situation arose in a computer practical this morning.  A
student overwrote "c" with a function.  This messes up lots of
things, but it is difficult to remove the function "c" from the
global environment because it is used as a function in both "rm"
and "remove".  [The solution was to reassign "c" as a number, and
then remove it.]  Would it be reasonable in "rm" and "remove" to
insist that the "c" function is got from the base?  The same
might apply to ".Internal" and "as.character", which are also
used.

Jonathan.

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Version:
 platform = sparc-sun-solaris2.7
 arch = sparc
 os = solaris2.7
 system = sparc, solaris2.7
 status = 
 major = 1
 minor = 1.1
 year = 2000
 month = August
 day = 15
 language = R

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[Rd] Cautionary tale about c (PR#695)
J.C.Rougier@durham.ac.uk