Scope and Closures
Thomas Mailund
Abstract
Thomas Mailund
Abstract
A scope is something functions or expressions are associated with that tells them what values variables refer to. It is used to figure out which environment expressions are evaluated in. The same variable name can be used many places in a program, but the scope of an expression tells R exactly which variable of a given name is referred to in the expression.
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A scope is something functions or expressions are associated with that tells them what values variables refer to. It is used to figure out which environment expressions are evaluated in. The same variable name can be used many places in a program, but the scope of an expression tells R exactly which variable of a given name is referred to in the expression.
Key concepts: Scope (computer science), Variable (mathematics), Expression (computer science), Computer science, Mathematics, Programming language, Mathematical analysis