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 <byron.el...@gmail.com> 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.
>
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