[R] reason for error in small function?

[Philipp Pagel]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 02:17:14PM -0400, Dale Steele wrote:
> Running the function below, tested using the cardiff dataset from
> splancs generates the following error.   What changes do I need to
> make to get the function to work?  Thanks.  --Dale
> 
> > gen.rpoints(events, poly, 99)
> > rpoints
> Error: object "rpoints" not found

Looks like the variable rpoints does not exist.

> gen.rpoints <- function(events, poly, nsim){
> rpoints <- array(0, dim=c(nrow(events),2,nsim))
>   for (i in 1:nsim) {
>     rpoints[, ,i] <- csr(poly, nrow(events))
>   }
> }

OK – so I guess this function is intended to create the variable
rpoints. And it does – but the variable exists only inside the function.
You could fix this by using the <<- operator but it is much cleaner to add
return(rppoints) as the last line of your function and then call it like
this:

rppoints <- gen.rpoints(events, poly, 99)

cu
	Philipp

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