Message-ID: <4941425A.9000901@stats.uwo.ca>
Date: 2008-12-11T16:39:54Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: passing on the ... arguments in a progammed graphics function
In-Reply-To: <7FCB8D44AE644B42ABE8A98A3AD1463E@TCPC000>
On 12/11/2008 11:01 AM, Mark Heckmann wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I want to write a wrapper function that uses the hist() function. Now I want
> to allow the hist breaks argument as optional in my function. So when my
> function contains the breaks argument I want the hist() function to use it,
> if not, I want the hist() function to use its default for breaks.
> How can I do that?
>
> myFunction <- function(data, ...) # breaks= as optional here
> {
> hist(data, breaks=???)
> }
If you make your call as
hist(data, ...)
then a breaks arg would be passed along (as would any other).
Duncan Murdoch