I created an object in with a for loop, inside a function, but get error in print object not found when trying to print it

Question

I\'ve created an object obs in the loop shown below and the loop returns obs. However when I try to print obs i get the message that obs is not found. I\'m new to programming R

Answer 1

Objects defined in a function are not available outside the function. If you return a value from a function, you must store the result somewhere. Try

obs <- complete("specdata", ID<-c(2,4,8,10,12))
print(obs)

This prevents you from having to know the name of variables inside function that you may not have written yourself.