I'm not 100% sure of your problem...
It seems that you may want to consider these functions
rapply
mapply
Also, making a separate wrapper function for what you want to do. E.g.:
ModelPrinterFun = function(dat){
model = glm(dist~speed, data=dat)
print(coef(model), digits=3)
}
ModelPrinterFun(cars)
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Jeroen Ooms <jeroeno...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmmm I was hoping there would be a more natural way to do it. For example,
> if you actually try to call the first function with all arguments:
>
> lm(formula=dist~speed, digits=3, data=cars)
>
> R will match whatever it can, and give you a warning with the names of
> remaining unmatched arguments. The only thing I really need is instead of a
> warning take these arguments and pass them on to the next function.
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 3:34 AM, Felix Andrews <fe...@nfrac.org> wrote:
>
> > It is complicated if the argument list is all mixed in together as in
> > your example. You would have to look up argument lists for possible S3
> > methods (e.g. 'digits' is an argument to print.default), and then
> > there is S4 to think about. Also, can arguments be matched by partial
> > names? Can they be given in the argument list without a name?
> >
> > My point is that you had better have a good reason to want to do it this
> > way...
> >
> > Cheers
> > Felix
> >
> >
> > On 14 March 2011 14:24, Jeroen Ooms <jeroeno...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I would like to define a recursive equivalent to call or do.call, which
> > takes
> > > a vector of multiple function names and 'chains' them, by greedy
> matching
> > of
> > > arguments down the chain. For example, I would like to be able to do:
> > >
> > > rec.do.call(c("glm","coef","print), list(formula=dist~speed, digits=3,
> > > data=cars));
> > >
> > > which would then be equivalent to:
> > >
> > > print(coef(glm(formula=dist~speed, data=cars)), digits=3);
> > >
> > > I've been playing around with a recursive function with ellipses, but I
> > > can't wrap my head around it.
> > >
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