[R] Is it possible to recursively update a function?

[jim holtman]

What exactly are you trying to do?  'foo' calls 'foo' calls 'foo' ....
 How did you expect it to stop the recursive calls?

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Seeker <zhongming at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is the test code.
>
> foo<-function(x) exp(-x)
> for (i in 1:5)
> {
> foo<-function(x) foo(x)*x
> foo(2)
> }
>
> The error is "evalution nested too deeply". I tried Recall() but it
> didn't work either. Thanks a lot for your input.
>
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What is the problem that you are trying to solve?