I posted this a few years ago (but found I never really had a need for it):
http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/04/06/1430.html On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:22 AM, ivo welch <ivo...@gmail.com> wrote: > dear R developers: it is of course easy for a third party to make > suggestions if this third party is both clueless and does not put in > any work. with these caveats, let me suggest something. > > The syntax for returning multiple arguments does not strike me as > particularly appealing. would it not possible to allow syntax like: > > f= function() { return( rnorm(10), rnorm(20) ) } > (a,d$b) = f() > > this would just hide the list conversion and unconversion. yes, I > know how to accomplish this with lists, but it does not seem pretty or > natural. > > regards, > > /ivo > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
