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2 messages · Gabor Grothendieck

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Gabor Grothendieck
# 
This works:

  my.compose <- function(f, ...) {
    if (missing(f)) identity
    else function(x) f(my.compose(...)(x))
  }

  my.compose(sin, cos, tan)(pi/4)
  ## [1] 0.5143953

  sin(cos(tan(pi/4)))
  ## [1] 0.5143953

But replacing my.compose with Recall in the else causes it to fail:

  my.compose2 <- function(f, ...) {
    if (missing(f)) identity
    else function(x) f(Recall(...)(x))
  }

  my.compose2(sin, cos, tan)(pi/4)
  ## Error in my.compose2(sin, cos, tan)(pi/4) : unused argument (tan)

Seems like a bug in R.

This is taken from:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52463170/a-recursive-compose-function-in-r
Gabor Grothendieck
# 
Please ignore. Looking at this again I realize the problem is that
Recall is not direclty within my.compose2 but rather is within the
anonymous function in the else.
On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 9:23 AM Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote: