Perfect. Thanks!
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:35 AM, arun <smartpink...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > Try: > > plotx <- function(x,y, ...){ > labels <- list(xlab="x",ylab="y") > args <- modifyList(labels,list(x=x,...)) > do.call("plot",args) > } > > plotx(1:100,1:100,xlab="I Don't Work!") > A.K. > > > On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 11:14 AM, Dustin Fife < > fife.dus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Suppose I'm creating a function that sets default ylab and xlab behaviors: > > plotx = function(x, y, ...){ > plot(x,y, ylab="", xlab="",...) > } > > The problem is, on occasion, I actually want to override the defaults > in my function. I would like to do the following: > > plotx(1:100, 1:100, xlab="I Don't Work!") > > > But I get the "multiple actual arguments" error message (which makes > sense). Does anyone know how to set a default (like plotx does), but > allow it to change if the user specifies the same argument via ...? > > I tried doing something like this: > > plotx = function(x, y, ...){ > args = list(...) > yl = ifelse(!is.null(args$ylab), args$ylab, "") > xl = ifelse(!is.null(args$xlab), args$xlab, "") > plot(x,y, ylab=yl, xlab=xl,...) > } > > but got the same error. I then started thinking that maybe I can > remove the ylab and xlab arguments from ..., but I don't know how I'd > do that. Any ideas of how to remove it? Or, is there a better way of > doing this? Thanks! > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.