On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Hans Ekbrand <h...@sociologi.cjb.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 10:07:06AM -0400, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>> Some small tweaks. If you use simplify=FALSE then it will guarantee
>> that a list is returned:
>>
>> sapply(my.names, get, simplify = FALSE)
>>
>> for example, compare the outputs of:
>>
>> sapply(c("letters", "LETTERS"), get)
>> sapply(c("letters", "LETTERS"), get, simplify = FALSE)
>
> Thanks Gabor,
>
> But get() fails to find my objects, though get() successfully finds
> "letters" and "LETTERS" (but they are part of the global environment,
> I assume).
Specify the environment from which you want get to fetch them, See ?get
For example, below we tell it to look in the current environment:
my.test.function <- function() {
a <- 1:3
b <- c("x", "y")
sapply(c("a", "b"), get, environment(), simplify = FALSE)
}
my.test.function()
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