ans: Value of Last Evaluated Expression
In gdata: Various R Programming Tools for Data Manipulation

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The functon returns the value of the last evaluated top-level expression, which is always assigned to .Last.value (in package:base).

ans()

This function retrieves .Last.value. For more details see .Last.value.

.Last.value

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.Last.value, eval

  2+2                  # Trivial calculation...
  ans()                # See the answer again

  gamma(1:15)          # Some intensive calculation...
  fac14 <- ans()       # store the results into a variable

  rnorm(20)            # Generate some standard normal values
  ans()^2              # Convert to Chi-square(1) values...
  stem(ans())          # Now show a stem-and-leaf table