On Oct 3, 2012, at 16:49 , Hadley Wickham wrote: > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Gabriel Becker <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hadley, >> >> You could do this: >> >> make_fun = function(args, body, env) >> { >> f = function() >> formals(f) = args >> body(f) = body >> environment(f) = env >> f >> } >> >> If for some reason using function() itself as Duncan suggested won't work. > > Oh that's an approach that's easier to explain to others - thanks! > > Hadley
There's also as.function(), although its semantics are a bit arcane. It and the converse as.list.function() have their origin in S-PLUS, where it was commonplace (or relatively so) to treat a function as a list, like in ls[[2]]. > > -- > RStudio / Rice University > http://had.co.nz/ > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: [email protected] Priv: [email protected] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
