[R] pass additional parameters to function

Weiwei Shi helprhelp at gmail.com
Fri Oct 20 00:43:42 CEST 2006


how do i assign "1" or "2" to some destination variable?
i mean, how do i use something to represent ... in the defn. of f?

On 10/19/06, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> Try this:
>
> f <- function(f1, ...) f1(...)
> f(sin, 1)
> f(max, 1, 2)
>
>
> On 10/19/06, Weiwei Shi <helprhelp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a function like this:
> >
> > f <- function(f1) { ...}
> >
> > f1 is a function name itself.
> > I have two candidates for f1, and each of them have different numbers
> > of arguments, say
> > f2 has 2 while f3 has 3.
> >
> > then my question is, how to write f function so that I can pass
> > different funcation names with different number of parameters?
> >
> > thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Weiwei Shi, Ph.D
> > Research Scientist
> > GeneGO, Inc.
> >
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-- 
Weiwei Shi, Ph.D
Research Scientist
GeneGO, Inc.

"Did you always know?"
"No, I did not. But I believed..."
---Matrix III



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