R equivalent to funcall?

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 13:20:32 +0100 (CET), Johannes H?sing
<johannes at huesing.name> wrote :

Dear all,
I have a list of time series and want to plot them.
Is there a way that the dot-dot-dot argument of a
function accepts a list as single arguments, such
as funcall in several Lisp dialects?

do.call() comes close to what you want.  For example,

opts <- list(cex=2, lty=3, type='b')

do.call("plot", c(list(1:10, rnorm(10)), opts))

This messes up some of the tricks plot() uses to set default axis
labels, but otherwise it may be close to what you're after.

Duncan Murdoch