execute array of functions

Not sure the replies you received make it clear, but the key point is
that functions are first class objects in R like any other objects
(vectors, lists, data frames) and can be assigned, collected into
structures, indexed, etc. in the usual way. Further, if the value of
any R expression is a function object, it can be called in the usual
way on an argument list by:

Some R_Expression(comma separated argument list)

e.g.

{y <-function(x) sin(x)+10} (pi/2) ## pi is a known named constant in R

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Your initial confusion below actually has nothing to do with this: you
have confused unquoted names of objects in R with quoted character
strings. So, e.g.

x <- 1:10
assigns a sequence of numeric values to the name x, which essentially
points to where those values are stored in memory.

typing

x

at the command line would print the values (by default)

typing

"x"

prints the character string "x"

-- Bert

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Muhammad Rahiz

Hi all,

I'm trying to get the min and max of a sequence of number using a loop like
the folllowing. Can anyone point me to why it doesn't work.

Thanks.

type ? ?<- c("min","max")
n ? ? ? <- 1:10
for (a in 1:2) ? ?{
print(type[a](n)) }


--
Muhammad

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