> Someone else mentioned Venables and Ripley (2000) S > Programming (Springer). Please see this or some other discussion of the > "..." argument.
The "Introduction to R" (from Cran website) also talks about it. See pg 49 - section 10.4 (was just reading this the other day). Cheers Manoj -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Spencer Graves Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 11:53 AM To: Erin Hodgess Cc: R-help; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] Re: [S] [R/S] question re solution <see below> Erin Hodgess wrote: >Dear R and S People: > >First, thank you to so many people for your help to my problem. > >Here is the solution: > >a <- 0.5*(outer(1:n3,1:n3,function(x,y,n2.){n2. - pmax(x,y)},n2.=n2)) > >I have one final pesky question, please: >During my experiments, I tried the following: > >a <- 0.5*(outer(1:n3,1:n3,function(x,y,n2.=n2){n2. - pmax(x,y)})) > > In S-Plus, the function "outer" can't find "n2". In the form outer(1:n3,1:n3,function(x,y,n2.=n2){n2. - pmax(x,y)}), n2.=n2) the value of "n2" is passed to "n2." as part of the "..." argument. Someone else mentioned Venables and Ripley (2000) S Programming (Springer). Please see this or some other discussion of the "..." argument. hope this helps. spencer graves >Why doesn't this work please? > >thank you! > >Sincerely, >Erin Hodgess >Associate Professor >Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences >University of Houston - Downtown >mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >This message was distributed by [EMAIL PROTECTED] To >...(s-news.. clipped)... > > -- Spencer Graves, PhD, Senior Development Engineer O: (408)938-4420; mobile: (408)655-4567 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
