Dear Bill--
I have seen it most often in functions that are defined or used inside of
other functions, and need an argument from the calling function. So I have,
purely as a matter of imitation, taken to doing it when I am writing a
function that wants an argument of the calling function passed
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 6:19 PM, andrewH ahoer...@rprogress.org wrote:
Dear Bill--
I have seen it most often in functions that are defined or used inside of
other functions, and need an argument from the calling function. So I have,
purely as a matter of imitation, taken to doing it when I
Dear Bill--
I have figured out that my original question and my most recent response to
you were largely nonsensical bits of idiocy. Please do not trouble yourself
with them further. But I do thank you most sincerely for your time and
attention.
andrewH
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Let us suppose that we have a function foo(X) which is called inside
another function, bar(). Suppose, moreover, that the name X has been
assigned a value when foo is called.
I have noticed that many functions contain arguments with defaults of
the form X=X. Call this reflexive assignment. How is
Of Andrew Hoerner
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 9:31 AM
To: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: [R] Assigning default function arguments to themselves: Why?
Let us suppose that we have a function foo(X) which is called inside
another function, bar(). Suppose, moreover, that the name X has been
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