I think perhaps it would be useful if you tipped your hand a bit more about
what you are actually trying to do with your function, but I think that this
does the immediate task for functions that have … in the argument list.
foo <- function(x=1, y=2, z=3, ...) {
m <- length(formals()) + length(list(...)) - 1
m
}
The -1 is because … gets counted in the formal arguments, but we don’t want
that in m.
Of course, for a particular function, you could replace length(formals()) with
the number of formals you actually have, since this won’t change.
But perhaps I’m misunderstanding the overall goal.
—rjp
On Oct 20, 2015, at 3:45 PM, Steven Stoline
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Dear All:
I am wondering whether there is a way to read and assign the number of
arguments of a function inside this function.
### For example
fun<-function(x1,x2,x3,...){
m<- number of arguments
}
### e.g.
fun<-function(x1,x2,x3){
m<- number of arguments
### m =3 in this case
}
### e.g.
fun<-function(x1,x2,x3,y1,z1,z2){
m<- number of arguments
### m =6 in this case
}
with thanks
Steve
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1123 Forest Avenue
Portland, ME 04112
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