On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Bert Gunter gunter.ber...@gene.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Peter Meilstrup
explain some things, such as under what circumstances one would get a
`...` used in incorrect context error.
How could it possibly know that?
-- Bert
By looking at the
On Oct 5, 2012, at 03:31 , Peter Meilstrup wrote:
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Bert Gunter gunter.ber...@gene.com wrote:
The R Language definition manual explains all of this. Read it.
I always reread that before I post to this list.
The only relevant mention of missing in the R
Why not just use the list constructor:
theList - setNames(vector(list,3),letters[1:3])
## The list components are empty = NULL, not NA)
This also doesn't seem to be an R-devel topic.
-- Bert
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Josh O'Brien joshmobr...@gmail.com wrote:
Say I have argnames - c(a,
The R Language definition manual explains all of this. Read it.
-- Bert
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Peter Meilstrup
peter.meilst...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Josh O'Brien joshmobr...@gmail.com wrote:
Say I have argnames - c(a, b, c).
From that I want to construct
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Peter Meilstrup
peter.meilst...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Bert Gunter gunter.ber...@gene.com wrote:
The R Language definition manual explains all of this. Read it.
I always reread that before I post to this list.
The only relevant
Say I have argnames - c(a, b, c).
From that I want to construct the equivalent of alist(a=, b=, c=).
Here's a one liner that'll do that for you:
argnames - letters[1:3]
setNames(rep(list(bquote()), length(argnames)), argnames)
- Josh
--
View this message in context:
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Bert Gunter gunter.ber...@gene.com wrote:
The R Language definition manual explains all of this. Read it.
I always reread that before I post to this list.
The only relevant mention of missing in the R Language Definition
that I could find were in section 4.1.2 on
This is tangentially related to Hadley's question.
Suppose I'm building a function programmatically; I have assembled an
expression for the body and I know the names of the arguments it wants
to take.
Suppose I have some convenience function such that writing
make_function(alist(a=, b=),
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Peter Meilstrup
peter.meilst...@gmail.com wrote:
This is tangentially related to Hadley's question.
Suppose I'm building a function programmatically; I have assembled an
expression for the body and I know the names of the arguments it wants
to take.
Suppose I
