Sorry, I shouldn't have used 'sum' as an example; I am looking for a solution in the case of functions that do not result in simple vectors or matrices.
The "real-world" example is something like the following using the 'raster' package, though (I think) any command producing an S4 object could be a candidate: r1 <- raster(system.file("external/test.grd", package="raster"))*1 r2 <- raster(system.file("external/test.grd", package="raster"))*2 obs=objects(pattern=glob2rx("r?")) #Would like to generate the equivalent of... stack(r1,r2) ...using a variation of obs as an argument to 'stack' (potentially very long). Cheers, Kevin On Nov 16, 2010, at 5:07 PM, David Winsemius wrote: > > On Nov 16, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Kevin Ummel wrote: > >> A bit embarrassed to post this seemingly trivial question, but I can't find >> anything in the archive that's quite relevant: >> >> a1=1 >> a2=2 >> >> obs=objects(pattern=glob2rx("a?")) >> >> I want to utilize 'obs' as a function argument to produce something like: >> >> sum(a1,a2) >> > > ?get > > sum(sapply(obs, get)) > [1] 3 > > >> Obviously, sum(obs) doesn't work, but I've tried variations of 'eval', >> 'parse', 'mget', and 'noquote' without success. What am I missing? >> >> Thanks, >> Kevin >> > -- > David Winsemius, MD > West Hartford, CT > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.