[R] When customizing last line, the code stops working

[Frank S.]

Many thanks to Mark and Duncan for your help!


As Duncan Murdoch indicated in his answer, it was a matter of envir argument from function do.call.


Thank you!


Frank S.

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De: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
Enviado: jueves, 3 de noviembre de 2016 14:41:26
Para: Frank S.; r-help at r-project.org
Asunto: Re: [R] When customizing last line, the code stops working

On 03/11/2016 8:29 AM, Frank S. wrote:
> Dear all,
>
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> The function I present works perfectly when I run it as written (that is, leaving NEW LINE as commented). However, when
>
> I try to run the same function via this mentioned line (and therefore commenting LAST LINE) R gives an error message:
> Error in FUN(X[[i]], ...) : object 'dt_sp_1' not found. I do not understand why I don't get the same result.

You aren't specifying the "envir" argument to "get", so it defaults to
the environment from which you called get, and that's the evaluation
frame of lapply() (or maybe of do.call()).

Write the last line as

union <- do.call(rbind, lapply(paste0("dt_sp_", 1:length(sp)), get, envir = environment()))


and it works.

Duncan Murdoch
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> Frank S.
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>
> all.sp <- function(age.u, open, close) {
>
> require(data.table)
> dt <- data.table( id = c(rep(1, 2), 2:4, rep(5, 2)),
>     sex = as.factor(rep(c(0, 1), c(3, 4))),
>     fborn =  as.Date(c("1935-07-25", "1935-07-25", "1939-07-23", "1943-10-05",
>                        "1944-01-01", "1944-09-07", "1944-09-07")) )
>
> sp <- seq(open, close, by = "year")
> dt_sp <- list()
> for (i in 1:length(sp)) {
>    vp <- as.POSIXlt(c(as.Date("1000-01-01"), sp))
>    vp$year <- vp$year - age.u
>    dt.cut <- as.numeric(cut(x = as.POSIXlt(dt$fborn), breaks = vp, right = TRUE, include.lowest = TRUE))
>    dt_sp[i] <- split(dt, factor(dt.cut, i))
>    dt_sp[[i]] <- data.table(dt_sp[[i]])[, entry_sp := sp[i]]
>    assign(paste0("dt_sp_", 1:length(sp))[i], dt_sp[[i]])
>    }
>
>    union <- rbind(dt_sp_1, dt_sp_2, dt_sp_3, dt_sp_4)     # LAST LINE: IT WORKS
>
>
>    # I TRY TO CUSTOMIZE LAST LINE, BUT THEN CODE STOPS WORKING
>    # union <- do.call(rbind, lapply(paste0("dt_sp_", 1:length(sp)), get))     # NEW LINE
> }
>
> # Example:
> result <- all.sp(age.u = 65, open = as.Date("2007-01-01"), close = as.Date("2010-05-01"))
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