I assume he wants to be able to change the formals although its confusing since the example uses the same formals in both cases.
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 6:32 PM, John Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Hadley, > > Why not just f <- g ? > > Regards, > John > > -------------------------------- > John Fox, Professor > Department of Sociology > McMaster University > Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4 > 905-525-9140x23604 > http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > project.org] On Behalf Of hadley wickham > > Sent: February-23-08 5:40 PM > > To: R-devel > > Subject: [Rd] Aliasing a function > > > > A simple way to alias a function is to do : > > > > g <- function(a = 1, b = 2, c = 3) a + b * c > > f <- function(...) g(...) > > > > but formals (etc) is no longer very helpful. Is there an easy way to > > programmatically create: > > > > f <- function(a=1, b=2, c=3) g(a=a, b=b, c=c) > > > > This comes up in ggplot2 where I alias many functions to hide the fact > > that I'm using proto in the background, and I'd like the aliased > > functions to be a little more user friendly in terms of revealing what > > are valid arguments (and also to match up with the rdoc files which I > > am building). > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Hadley > > > > -- > > http://had.co.nz/ > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
