[R] .Last.value or % or ANS or ... (was unix)

[Bill Simpson]

On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Mark Myatt wrote:

> Yves Gauvreau <cyg at sympatico.ca> writes:
> >... and Matlab uses "ans" and Mathematica effectively uses %, %%
> >
> >Would be nice to have something simpler than .Last.value
> 
> Perhaps I am stating the obvious or being extremely stupid but you can
> create a function:
> 
>         lv <- function()
>          {
>          .Last.value
>          }
> 
> And then use lv() whenever you need .Last.value.

How do you say "give me the output I saw three steps ago?" In Mathematica
you would use %%% or Out[-3].

Bill

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