[R] Issue with special assignment operator

[AROONALOK PYNE]

Hi

Please explain why the function 'foo()' is not printing x as 8 in the
following code :

> foo <- function(){
+ x <- 10
+ if(x){
+ x <<- 8
+ }
+ print(x)
+ }
> foo()
[1] 10
> x
[1] 8
>

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*AROONALOK PYNE*

BE Graduate
Department Of Computer Science And Engineering
Jadavpur University, Kolkata-32
India