[R] Variable passed to function not used in function in select=... in subset

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Mon Nov 10 16:43:12 CET 2008


Here are a few things to try:

TestFunc1 <- get("[")

TestFunc2 <- function(DF, group) DF[group]

TestFunc3 <- function(...) subset(..., subset = TRUE)



On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Karl Knoblick <karlknoblich at yahoo.de> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have the problem that in my function the passed variable is not used, but the variable name of the dataframe itself - difficult to explain, but an easy example:
>
> TestFunc<-function(df, group) {
>     print(names(subset(df, select=group)))
> }
> df1<-data.frame(group="G1", visit="V1", value=0.9)
> TestFunc(df1, c("group", "visit"))
>
> Result:
> [1] "group"
>
> But I expected and want to have [1] "group" "visit" as result! Does anybody know how to get this result?
>
> Thanks!
> Karl
>
>
>
>
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