[Rd] [R] unvectorized option for outer()

[Thomas Lumley]

On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> The version I posted yesterday did indeed mess up when some arguments were 
> unspecified.  Here's a revision that seems to work in all the tests I can 
> think of.  I also added the SIMPLIFY and USE.NAMES args from mapply to it, 
> and a sanity check to the args.
>
> I did notice and work around one buglet in mapply:  if you choose not to 
> vectorize any arguments, you don't get a call to the original function, 
> mapply returns "list()".
>
> For example,
>
>> mapply(function(x) x^2, MoreArgs = list(x=2))
> list()
>
> whereas I would think 4 is a more logical answer.
>

I don't agree at all.  The answer should be the length of the longest 
vectorised argument, and it is.

 	-thomas