Trying to build up functions with its names by means of lapply
Sergio: Fair question. Unfair answer: My personal hangup. To my taste, get() makes R like a macro language instead of doing functional programming. force() makes me nervous about how I'm passing arguments. I won't attempt to defend either of these claims, so feel free to dismiss. Cheers, Bert
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Julio Sergio <juliosergio at gmail.com> wrote:
Bert Gunter <gunter.berton <at> gene.com> writes:
Another equivalent way to do it?
f2 <- function(c,nm = "gamma",...)
{
probFunc <- paste0(c,nm)
more <- list(...)
function(x)do.call(probFunc,c(x,more))
}
This avoids the explicit use of get() and force(), I believe, but are
there problems here I'm missing?
Thanks Bert. Since I'm relatively new in using this language, a question arises in my mind: why should the use of get() and force() be avoided? Is it just for syntactic clarity or is there another computational reason? Best regards, -Sergio.
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