Arguments of a function
?do.call
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Florent BATY wrote:
Hello, Is it possible to call a function having x arguments with vector containing the x values of the arguments in it ? To make myself clearer, I was wandering if from a function f:
> f
function(a,b) a+b and a vector v which the 2 values of the arguments "a" and "b":
> v
a b
1 2
> names(v)
[1] "a" "b" it is possible to call the function f with vector v as the arguments of the function. If I use f(v) it returns me an error since v was considered as the value of the first argument. Do you any ideas ??
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