Message-ID: <874ow0aeb4.fsf@blackbart.sedgenet>
Date: 2009-05-04T18:55:11Z
From: Tyler Smith
Subject: ellipsis problem
Hi,
I'm confused about the use of ellipsis in function arguments. I'm trying
to write a wrapper for plot to automate the combination of plot() and
points() calls for a data.frame. Some arguments seem to get passed
through to the inner plot, while others cause an error:
Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) :
..1 used in an incorrect context, no ... to look in
As a minimal example:
tmp <- data.frame(Y = sample(1:10, 40, replace = TRUE),
X = sample(1:10, 40, replace = TRUE))
myplot <- function(x, ...) {
plot(Y ~ X, data = x, ...)
}
myplot(tmp) ## works fine
myplot(tmp, tcl = 1) ## works fine
myplot(tmp, tcl = -0.1)
Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) :
..1 used in an incorrect context, no ... to look in
myplot(tmp, mgp = c(3, 0.5, 0))
Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) :
..1 used in an incorrect context, no ... to look in
plot(Y ~ X, data = tmp, mgp = c(3, 0.5, 0)) ## works
plot(Y ~ X, data = tmp, tcl = -0.1) ## works
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Tyler
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