Global variables in R

Question

I am poking into the manuals  I wanted to ask the community  How can we set global variables inside a function

User · Accepted Answer

As Christian s answer with assign   shows  there is a way to assign in the global environment   A simpler  shorter  but not better     stick with assign  way is to use the  lt  lt - operator  ie         a  lt  lt -  new     inside the function

User · Answer

I found a solution for how to set a global variable in a mailinglist posting via assign   a  lt -  old  test  lt - function         assign  a    new   envir    GlobalEnv    test   a    display the new value

User · Answer

What about  GlobalEnv a  lt -  quot new quot    I saw this explicit way of creating a variable in a certain environment here  http   adv-r had co nz Environments html  It seems shorter than using the assign   function

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