I thought I might bring this up again - it now seems like Curry would be a natural fit with Reduce, Filter, Find, Map, Negate and Position. Any chance we might see this in a future version of R?
Hadley On Thu, Nov 1, 2007 at 2:00 PM, Byron Ellis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all (especially R-core) I suppose, > > With the introduction of the new functional programming functions into > base I thought I'd ask for a Curry() function. I use a simple one that > looks this: > > Curry = function(FUN,...) { .orig = list(...);function(...) > do.call(FUN,c(.orig,list(...))) } > > This comes in really handy when using say, heatmap(): > > heatmap(mydata,hclustfun=Curry(hclust,method="average")) > > or other functions where there are ... arguments, but it's not clear > where they should end up. > > -- > Byron Ellis ([email protected]) > "Oook" -- The Librarian > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
