Re: [R] Help on a Display function

2011-01-15 Thread Hans W Borchers
William Dunlap wdunlap at tibco.com writes: But it fails on this: my_names - c(Bill, William) display(rev(my_names)) rev(my_names) = Error in cat(list(...), file, sep, fill, labels, append) : argument 3 (type 'list') cannot be handled by 'cat' This is because you call eval()

[R] Help on a Display function

2011-01-14 Thread Hans W Borchers
I wanted to simulate the Matlab DISPLAY function for some time now. After seeing a recent proposal by Gabor Grothendieck I came up with the following solution, display - function(...) { my_names - lapply(substitute(placeholderFunction(...))[-1], deparse) for (my in my_names) cat(my, =,

Re: [R] Help on a Display function

2011-01-14 Thread William Dunlap
-Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Hans W Borchers Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 8:55 AM To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] Help on a Display function I wanted to simulate the Matlab DISPLAY function