Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bert Gunter [mailto:gunter.berton at gene.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:33 AM
> To: Greg Snow; 'Florin Maican'; r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: RE: [R] programming creating different functions in a loop
>
> ... but perhaps even more straightforward is:
>
> f <- function(i,x)x+i
>
> Of course, we don't know exactly what the poster is after with his
> rather
> arcane construction, so this may not suit. But you know the rule: if
> the
> question requires a complex, tricky answer, it's probably the wrong
> question.
>
> Cheers,
> Bert
>
> Bert Gunter
> Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On
> Behalf Of Greg Snow
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:25 AM
> To: Florin Maican; r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] programming creating different functions in a loop
>
> Anytime that you are tempted to use assign and a loop, you should
> consider
> using lapply (or sapply) and a list instead.
>
> Consider this alternative:
>
> > f <- lapply( 1:3, function(i){ force(i); function(x) x+i} )
> >
> > f[[1]](3)
> [1] 4
> > f[[2]](10)
> [1] 12
> > f[[3]](0)
> [1] 3
> >
> > sapply( f, function(f) f(1:10) )
> [,1] [,2] [,3]
> [1,] 2 3 4
> [2,] 3 4 5
> [3,] 4 5 6
> [4,] 5 6 7
> [5,] 6 7 8
> [6,] 7 8 9
> [7,] 8 9 10
> [8,] 9 10 11
> [9,] 10 11 12
> [10,] 11 12 13
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> --
> Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
> Statistical Data Center
> Intermountain Healthcare
> greg.snow at imail.org
> 801.408.8111
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> > project.org] On Behalf Of Florin Maican
> > Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:18 AM
> > To: r-help at r-project.org
> > Subject: [R] programming creating different functions in a loop
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I want to create the following functions in a loop
> >
> > f1<-function(x){x+1}
> > f2<-function(x){x+2}
> > f3<-function(x){x+3}
> >
> > Output f1(2)=3
> > f2(2)=4
> > f3(2)=5
> >
> >
> > I tried to create the in a loop as bellow but I get wrong on answers
> > because the value of i change
> >
> > for(i in 1:3){
> > assign(paste("f",i,sep="")
> > ,function(x)
> > x+i
> > )
> > } # end for
> >
> > Output f1(2)=5
> > f2(2)=5
> > f3(2)=5
> > But it is not what I want. The question is how I can
> > fix in R the value of "i" in my functions? I tried to use assign()
> and
> > get(),but I did not manage.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Florin
> >
> > --
> > Florin Maican
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