Please ignore. Looking at this again I realize the problem is that
Recall is not direclty within my.compose2 but rather is within the
anonymous function in the else.
On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 9:23 AM Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This works:
>
> my.compose <- function(f, ...) {
> if (missing(f)) identity
> else function(x) f(my.compose(...)(x))
> }
>
> my.compose(sin, cos, tan)(pi/4)
> ## [1] 0.5143953
>
> sin(cos(tan(pi/4)))
> ## [1] 0.5143953
>
> But replacing my.compose with Recall in the else causes it to fail:
>
> my.compose2 <- function(f, ...) {
> if (missing(f)) identity
> else function(x) f(Recall(...)(x))
> }
>
> my.compose2(sin, cos, tan)(pi/4)
> ## Error in my.compose2(sin, cos, tan)(pi/4) : unused argument (tan)
>
> Seems like a bug in R.
>
> This is taken from:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52463170/a-recursive-compose-function-in-r
>
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