Re: [R] Question about creating lists with functions as elements

2009-07-01 Thread Craig P. Pyrame
Dear Duncan and Rolf, That's funny! Thanks a lot. Best regards, Craig Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 30/06/2009 5:11 PM, Craig P. Pyrame wrote: Dear Rolf, What do you mean? He was talking about the fortunes package. Install it, type fortune(), and you'll get a fortune cookie message. Maybe

[R] Question about creating lists with functions as elements

2009-06-30 Thread Craig P. Pyrame
Dear list, I am trying to construct a list of functions using rep. I can't understand the following: c(character, character) = list with two functions rep(character, 2) = error The error says that object of type 'special' is not subsettable, and I have no idea what this means. Would you

Re: [R] Question about creating lists with functions as elements

2009-06-30 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
From the help page of rep: Value: An object of the same type as 'x' (except that 'rep' will coerce pairlists to vector lists). So, you can do: rep(list(character), 2) On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Craig P. Pyrame crap...@gmail.com wrote: Dear list, I am trying to construct a

Re: [R] Question about creating lists with functions as elements

2009-06-30 Thread Craig P. Pyrame
Dear Henrique, Thanks! This does work, and I find the following solution to my original problem elegant enough: rep(list(character, integer, numeric, ...), c(3, 2, 2, ...)) Best regards, Craig Henrique Dallazuanna wrote: From the help page of rep: Value: An object of the same

Re: [R] Question about creating lists with functions as elements

2009-06-30 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Craig P. Pyramecrap...@gmail.com wrote: But this fails, as above.  Why?  Why can c(character, character) create a list of two functions, but rep(character, 2) can't? Another solution to my problem I could find (and you'll hopefully suggest an even better one)

Re: [R] Question about creating lists with functions as elements

2009-06-30 Thread Craig P. Pyrame
Dear Barry, Thank you for the suggestion, it does work. I think the documentation might be improved, but it's probably not a good idea to submit bug reports just because I misunderstand what R does. Best regards, Craig Barry Rowlingson wrote: On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Craig P.

Re: [R] Question about creating lists with functions as elements

2009-06-30 Thread Rolf Turner
On 1/07/2009, at 12:34 AM, Craig P. Pyrame wrote: ... it's probably not a good idea to submit bug reports just because I misunderstand what R does. Gotta be a fortune!!! cheers, Rolf ##

Re: [R] Question about creating lists with functions as elements

2009-06-30 Thread Craig P. Pyrame
Dear Rolf, What do you mean? Best regards, Craig Rolf Turner wrote: On 1/07/2009, at 12:34 AM, Craig P. Pyrame wrote: ... it's probably not a good idea to submit bug reports just because I misunderstand what R does. Gotta be a fortune!!! cheers, Rolf

Re: [R] Question about creating lists with functions as elements

2009-06-30 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 30/06/2009 5:11 PM, Craig P. Pyrame wrote: Dear Rolf, What do you mean? He was talking about the fortunes package. Install it, type fortune(), and you'll get a fortune cookie message. Maybe one with your name on it. Duncan Murdoch Best regards, Craig Rolf Turner wrote: On

Re: [R] Question about creating lists with functions as elements

2009-06-30 Thread Greg Snow
Rowlingson Subject: Re: [R] Question about creating lists with functions as elements Dear Rolf, What do you mean? Best regards, Craig Rolf Turner wrote: On 1/07/2009, at 12:34 AM, Craig P. Pyrame wrote: ... it's probably not a good idea to submit bug reports just because I