[R] lapply with argument "X"

[john.gavin@ubs.com]

Hi,

I am probably making a simple mistake but I can't see it

> X
Error: Object "X" not found
> exists("X")
[1] FALSE
> lapply("X", exists)
[[1]]
[1] TRUE

Why is lapply producing true?
Is it something to do with the first
argument of lapply also being called 'X'?

> version
         _              
platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch     i386           
os       mingw32        
system   i386, mingw32  
status                  
major    2              
minor    0.0            
year     2004           
month    10             
day      04             
language R                  

Regards,

John.

John Gavin <john.gavin at ubs.com>,
Quantitative Risk Models and Statistics,
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